Flash technology strongly came into web design. The best evidence of this fact is that more and more websites are characterized by presence of the animated elements in the design, such as flash images, flash banners, animated galleries, flash maps, players, charts and much more. These active elements, or Flash components, brighten up the website design; make browsing more pleasant and convenient and websites – original and up-to-date.

Flash components are separate full-fledged Flash extensions that can be easily built into your Macromedia Adobe Flash design. Flash components are characterized by their own adjustable parameters and due to self-contained functionality they can be easily integrated into your project and then reused within different Flash projects. Components can include graphics as well as code. For example, a component can be a radio button, a dialog box, a preload bar, a menu bar, or even something that has no graphics at all, such as a timer, a server connection utility, or a custom XML parser. And rather than creating code for these widgets once again by yourself, you may just drag them into your FLA file. So, as you can see, these Flash files are very convenient and greatly save developer’s time. And the main focus for developer here is to create an editable component, built in the same style as the User Interface components. In other words, flash components should be compatible with the opther User Interface components, and there are many conventions that should be followed correctly on order to reach the goal.