Mar17

Flash Intros: A Need or Just an Extra Treat?

Used in many modern websites, flash intros are a time honored element that makes the website look much more dazzling and impressive to its visitors at first glance. With marketing and promotion being the mantra of modern age, every company wants to stand tall in the cut throat competitive market of globalization. Though flash intros are targeted to attract increasing number of potential customers to a website, sometimes it happen that it spawns the worst of results.

With visitors of today having no time to waste, they prefer websites that are easy to navigate and access. Not ready to wait for a website to load for long, there are chances that your visitors may move away to your competitor’s websites. You will definitely not want to lose your clients right? To achieve the best results of a flash design intro, i.e. to add dynamism to your website and also have your clients, maintain to follow several guidelines that helps satisfy the objective at its best:

  • Always add a ‘skip’ button to your flash design. There are times when visitors are in a hurry and they want to have access to the important information only. As you will not like to lose the client because of a lengthy flash intro, include a visible skip button so that visitors can skip away from the page according to their wish.
  • Also maintain to keep your flash file within a manageable size. The major problem faced in flash file is that it takes long time to download which may bore your visitors to move away to another website. Keep the file within manageable time range as most of the visitors will not want to watch a huge preloader, how much admirable it may be.
  • If your flash preloader is time consuming, try to make it handle it in an intelligent manner. Allow the intro to start loading while other files gets downloaded in the background simultaneously.

Not a compulsory need in website designing, big corporate companies and establishments mostly indulge in this flashy treat to grab more customers’ attention. If you are in tight budget, avoid using flash preloader as it is quite expensive in cots.

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