1.2.5. Authoring Systems

Today, multimedia applications are customary and yet they are still expanding. With today's advance of authoring systems it is relatively easy for everyone to develop a multimedia application. An authoring system is a program that generates complex multimedia presentations by using text, graphics, images and videos. The user does not have to have in-depth skills in programming languages. Two common authoring systems are Macromedia Flash or Macromedia Dreamweaver.

The following example shows how easy it is to produce a small animation in the authoring system Macromedia Flash MX. Just click on the image below to see the example.
This example runs on each browser with the Adobe Flash Plugin. If you have not yet installed this plugin on your computer, download it on the Adobe Homepage and install it on your computer.

Example for an authoring system (Macromedia 2004)