Because of this advanced functionality, it is more difficult to learn, but it does include great documentation and tutorials. Fireworks facilitates image manipulation at the beginning levels of multimedia development. Overall our evaluators preferred Fireworks to ImageReady in that Fireworks generates packages of HTML and Java which can then be integrated into existing HTML code. Again, it is not the image manipulation tool that Photoshop 5.0 is, but it does offer full Web page development capacity with a great library of image and rollover filters. A review of sites built with Flash reveals that these sites load fast.
Flash allows for full multimedia interactivity in Web page design with low bandwidth usage.
Academic Computing student staff recommend that its high functionality is geared for the intermediate to advanced user, and its learning curve is higher than that for most programs.