flash... I don't use flash much anymore because search engines are unable to crawl the code and it makes it very difficult to get your pages indexed and have any kind of ranking.  Another reason I don't use it very much is because most of my sites are boutique e-commerce and shopping customers have no patience to wait around for it and will go elsewhere.  But anyway, it can be fun and there are other ways to make animated graphics.  Here are some examles of work I have done: