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Flash Web
Designing
If you are even remotely related to web designing
industry, or are thinking of developing your website since
some time, than there is no doubt about the fact that you
would have heard the name of FLASH. Actually, FLASH is a multimedia
designing tool through which you can design multimedia presentations,
websites and interactive games. Flash was initially developed
by Macromedia Systems and now currently it is being developed
by Adobe Systems.
Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements,
and various web page components, to integrate video into web
pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.
In the recent times, Flash has become the preferred medium of
web designers, so much so that everyone wants to include a little
bit of flash into their website, and it is rightly justified,
as it gives the option of creating and showcasing your content
& message in a powerful, effective and a captivating way.
But, some designers, in a bid to make the
websites more attractive and captivating often step over the
line and what they create is a bloated flash web design which
takes forever to load, and as the end result you lose out
on a potential customer. While there is denying the effect
& impact that flash can create into the mind of website
visitors. Here we list down a few points in and against favour
of flash, study them and take your best decision.
Advantages of Using Flash on your website
1. Flash Websites are attractive
If you hire an expert flash web designer, than he will create
an attractive flash web design for you which will be compelling
and captivating for the visitors. Your web visitors will definetely
spend more time on your website, and you will have good amount
of your time to get yuor message across.
2. Flash adds interactiviy
The Actionscript feature of Flash opens up a vast expanse
of opportunities. An expert flash web designer can create
many interactive features, in presentation and in design.
You can also create interactive multimedia presentations as
well as games.
3. Cross Browser compatibility
With the advent of technology, more and more people are using
browsers other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. Browsers
like FireFox, Safari & Opera are in vogue. MAny web designers
have a tough time designing website which look the same in
all the browsers, and it is painstakingly hard for them. With
flash, all your cross browser issues are off in a snap. flash
displays all the website elements in the same way as when
designed.
4. Express yourself
Flash gives you a window to bring out the creativity in you
and express yuorself in a better way. It is a light weight
option for showcasing animation and multimedia effects since
it is vector based designing software.
5. Sound FX
With flash web designing back ground, you can opt to include
sound effects on your website and also play a soothing music
to all your website visitors in the loop.
Disadvantages of Using Flash on your website
1. Flash Player
Every flash file, requires the visitor to have flash player
installed on his machine to view the file. Furthermore, if
your flash file is developed in the latest version of flash
than probably it won't be displaying correctly if the visitors
flash player is of the older version. However, you can code
your web design in such a way that the website will detect
if the website visitor has flash player installed or not.
If not, the link to download the latest version will be displayed
automatically. Although, it is entirely your call to decide
whether your website visitors would be willing to download
the flash player and install it.
2. Web Promotion and Search
Engine Optimization
If you have a website, than it should bring some business
for you, else it is useless. To get business from your website
it should be optimized to rank high on search engines. If
your website design is in flash than a majority of search
engines will not be able to index your website and hence there
will be little or not traffic at ll to your websites from
the search engines. However, as per the latest info, Google
has started indexing flash files as well, and frankly I think
that is the only search engine that matters.
3. Loading Time
Since flash based web designs include all the elements like
images, colors, effects, sound effects and animation into
a single file, the file size tends to become bigger. The bigger
the file the more time it takes to download and display the
content.
So, as per our recommendation, Flash is best used in multimedia
persentations. For web designing it is ideal to create a website
which will combine Flash and HTML.
Web Design Temple, creates compelling
flash
web designs. We are a India Web Designer located in
Bombay.
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