Multimedia has always been an area of interest and scope for the more creative individual. The use of computer related technology to create real time actions, movies, games, and graphic designs to name a few, multimedia software has never been dormant. With newer versions of multimedia software being churned out every second, the market has always been competitive for products that bring in newer functionalities.
A tool that is used to provide vector based animations for websites is the Alligator Flash Designer 7.1.0.1. Able to work with all HTML editors including Microsoft FrontPage, GlobalScape, CuteSite and Macromedia Dreamweaver to name a few, Alligator Flash Designer 7.1.0.1 simplifies the process of animating a web site to a great extent. Extended features enable buttons, web links to be added to animations, existing flash and video clips to be exported in SWF, MP3 or WAV format to create interactive shapes, texts and movies.
Easy to use for even novices, Alligator Flash Designer produces the necessary HTML code that is needed to integrate flash files with their websites. In addition to this, the more experienced user can use ActionScripts to program events like action on mouse over or mouse click.
Some of the features of Alligator Flash Designer include:

• Usage of more than 130 predefined animation effects like fade, rotate, blur, crop etc.
. Ability to export and animate SWF files in addition to other images, shapes and text. The HTML code for the animated file is also produced automatically.
. Addition of WAV and MP3 sounds to the animations as well as use of ActionScripts for the creation of interactive movies.

The new version (7.1.0.1) provides the following additional facilities:

. Support for Unicode, sound volume control, tools for hand drawing and bitmap tracing.
. New roll over buttons are provided as well as built in gradients for better clarity of animations.

System Requirements:

• IBM PC or compatible, Pentium 350 MHZ or faster
• 32MB RAM
• 4MB disk space
• 16-bit color display or higher
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or above
• Flash Player 7.0 or above