Flash Charts Made Easy with Fusion Charts Free
January 8th, 2008 
Charts can be powerful if you want to drive a point home. However, charts are often dull, and only a few bother to look at them. Don't you wish you could make eye-catching animated charts alá Flash? Well, that's exactly what Fusion Charts does – free, quick, and painless.
Fusion Charts Free is a flash-charting component designed to make Flash charts for presentations. Knowledge in Macromedia Flash animation isn't a prerequisite in using this software. You don't even need to know anything about action scripts. All you need to know is the language you're embedding the chart in. Using XML as its data interface, Fusion Charts Free creates solid, interactive and visually impressive charts. Fusion Charts turns those boring data in animated charts.
Fusion Charts Free is so easy to use. All you need to do is to download the zip file from the site. No installation is involved. Just copy paste the SWF file of the chart of your choice to your server, just like what you do with your image files, and you're all set. Then you have to convert your data into XML and your chart is ready. All charts are rendered on the client side, which reduces the load on your own servers.
Fusion Charts Free can be used in PHP, Python, ASP, ASP.NET, JSP, Ruby on Rails, simple HTML pages and even in PowerPoint presentations. To view your charts, your users must have Adobe Flash 6 or higher.