> I have a question. How do you make shockwave stuff? It's probably a program, but I'm not sure... Is it? And if it is, does it cost anything?

Depends on whether you mean a shockwave animation or a flash animation. Shockwave animation requires Macromedia Director, which is pretty expensive...last time I checked it was around the $1000 range. Shockwave Flash animations (.swf) are based on vector graphics, so they're not quite as sophisticated as Director-based animations, but you can still do a lot with them. The best program for creating Flash work is Macromedia Flash, which is a little less pricey around $300. I've used it before and it's a lot of fun and very versatile. You can download a free timed-expiration trial at the link below. The last version I used was Flash 3, and I'm sure they've made a lot of improvements since then.

I know you can also make Flash animations with Macromedia Freehand, but I'm sure it's a lot simpler to do it with the program that was designed to do it.

Gri"Former Flashmeister"shny