Useful Tips on Flash web site designing

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Useful Tips on Flash web site designing, Flash Website development

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Ethen View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	Jul 19 2008, 05:50 AM Post #1
W.R. Private Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 4-July 08 Member No.: 1,030	Flash web site design is very much in vogue, especially since the corporate takeover of Macromedia by Adobe. Flash web sites use vector based graphics, in a continuous movie format. They can include sound, to make the website visit a richer and more absorbing experience. Studies have shown that this interactivity, greatly improves the visitor to customer conversion rate. Tastefully designed Flash web site templates keep visitors interested and make them stay at your site longer. The following few important factors might serve as a useful checklist if you are looking to design a Flash web site. 1. Take care of the time factor: The more complex the presentation, the longer it will take to build. It is often a better idea to first develop your HTML site, get it on- line, and then work on the Flash additions later. 2. Create a bypass for the repeat visitor: The situation of ‘getting bored’ can be avoided through a number of ways either by using a cookie that redirects a repeat user to a page without the opening presentation, or by letting the user choose when they want to see it. 3. Don’t overuse it: Using Flash heavily in websites, whose overriding purpose is for convenient gathering of information, will have a counter-affect. 4. Check the load time Load time of webpage should be kept minimum as much as possible - Now “Google algorithm ability to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds is improved”, so this is good news for flash sites. Hope this will be helpful to you. Any further suggestions are welcome. Cheers!!!! -------------------- Advanced Web Site Design

Jefferson View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	Aug 26 2008, 02:51 AM Post #2
W.R. Private Group: Banned Posts: 4 Joined: 21-July 08 Member No.: 1,076	QUOTE (Ethen @ Jul 19 2008, 05:50 AM) Flash web site design is very much in vogue, especially since the corporate takeover of Macromedia by Adobe. Flash web sites use vector based graphics, in a continuous movie format. They can include sound, to make the website visit a richer and more absorbing experience. Studies have shown that this interactivity, greatly improves the visitor to customer conversion rate. Tastefully designed Flash web site templates keep visitors interested and make them stay at your site longer. The following few important factors might serve as a useful checklist if you are looking to design a Flash web site. 1. Take care of the time factor: The more complex the presentation, the longer it will take to build. It is often a better idea to first develop your HTML site, get it on- line, and then work on the Flash additions later. 2. Create a bypass for the repeat visitor: The situation of ‘getting bored’ can be avoided through a number of ways either by using a cookie that redirects a repeat user to a page without the opening presentation, or by letting the user choose when they want to see it. 3. Don’t overuse it: Using Flash heavily in websites, whose overriding purpose is for convenient gathering of information, will have a counter-affect. 4. Check the load time Load time of webpage should be kept minimum as much as possible - Now “Google algorithm ability to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds is improved”, so this is good news for flash sites. Hope this will be helpful to you. Any further suggestions are welcome. Cheers!!!! Hi Ethen Nice article. I really love this. You change my wrong thinking about the flash sites. can you explain the 3 and 4 point briefly? From many days i thinking about to making a flash based site but i afraid that how can i reduce the loading time of the site. thanks a lot -------------------- website design web design services

CaptiveMonkey View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	Aug 26 2008, 07:53 PM Post #3
W.R. Private Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 1-April 08 From: Blackpool, Lancashire, UK Member No.: 895	Most important: Never use Flash just because you can; Use Flash when it will best fulfill your needs.

Shirley View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	Sep 2 2008, 08:59 PM Post #4
W.R. Private Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 20-August 08 Member No.: 1,131	Thanks, Ethen. One tip more: Make separate flash file instead of single flash file that it will take less time to load as well as you can create different html pages around the different ideas contained in it.

jack-pack View Member Profile Find Member's Posts	Oct 23 2008, 06:42 AM Post #5
W.R. Private Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 22-October 08 Member No.: 1,329	hi i hear somewhere that google not indexing the flash sites what is the meaning of that. If google not indexing the flash sites then hw can we increase our site rank in google? thanks -------------------- free web templates web designers

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