Macromedia Flash Player is software that lets you view animated, interactive content on websites. The creators of many websites like to use Flash Player for motion graphics, animation, games, educational tools, video, music, and interactive programs such as shopping carts and order forms. To use these websites as intended—to see the “Flash content”—you have to download Flash Player to your computer. Flash Player becomes a part of your web browser, working in conjunction with your browser to enhance its capabilities.

You can think of Macromedia as a company that sells an artist’s kit, complete with paint brushes and paints. Web designers that buy the kit create animation, video, games, and other programs that you see and use. Macromedia itself doesn’t create the programs, with the exception of content found at the macromedia.com website.

(Visit the macromedia website for more information: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/activex/flash/ieWin32400.htm)

This siteuses Flash content built for the latest version of the Flash Player (Version 7 at the time of writing). There is an inbuilt process of player version detection that will prevent older players from attempting to render any of the content on this page. You will therefore need to upgrade your player if you intend to view the Flash content on this page.