Today website design is issued for enhanced interactivity and usability for the visitor of the website. Flash is appearing as an out of box tool in the regard of providing attraction and appealing factors for a website. This tool is used to put in multimedia content that can be viewed by the user. This enhances the users experience and can help to reinforce an idea. By using flash a marketer can design the website which can count a great appeal and can help create a long lasting effect on the website visitor.

Flash from past few years has gained huge popularity. One of the main reasons why a website designer and marketers are using flash on the websites is due to their interactive and appealing factors. Along with a Web designer, the website company can provide a logo designer who can cater to need of those marketers who want their logo design to enhance their brand value.

A professional web design calls for flash animation as an essential factor. With immense popularity of flash and other appealing applications, web pages come out to be more attractive than traditional versions of website. A flash website makes the web page more appealing with its characteristic nature of creating positive vibes in the minds of user. Involving Animation, Audio, video, 3D effect and other multimedia tools can bring more captivating feature. Flash websites are sometimes used in the beginning of the website opening creating a favorable impression which ultimately holds the visitor in longer run. Interactive graphics and 3D designs can also help a business organization to enhance their logos and messages which could have otherwise wasted the visit of the website. The most important advantage of using a flash animation website for marketing and promotion is that you get a visually striking website.

Taking a look into the disadvantages of using flash website, a web design including a number of tools for enhancement is not always appropriate. A major drawback of flash technology is that excessive use of multimedia tools under flash application, audio or video or any other effect increases the downloading webpage time. If most of the time the animation tools attract the users then sometimes slow downloading can shift the concentration of the visitor. A website designer generally keeps this concept in mind and will design website accordingly. A genuine website design is the one which will maintain a balance between the text and flash to keep its size reasonable. Moreover a heavy website also defines the availability of the website on the search engine.

Everything in the world has some pros and cons and so does flash animation. It becomes the duty of the website designers to provide his creative efforts as per the need and objectives of marketer, which can help developing a favorable image of the company. The few advantages and disadvantages can be really handy in achieving the prospective growth in the marketing effect with making effective web design.

Flash is everywhere you look on the internet. It is hard to imagine an internet without it.

It can be a very useful too or it can also be detrimental . As an asset it can get people´s attention and focus that attention to where the person needs look. Flash can also be a very big liability.

First search engines can not read text that is in flash. Thus a site with a lot of text in flash will be difficult if not impossible to rank in the search engines. Flash can also have a negative visual affect. Too much flash is annoying.

So I know what you are asking. Where do I use flash and where do I not use Flash?

Flash is very effective on the first page of a website. It is also great for advertisements. This is a good example of how flash can be used to direct a viewers attention to an ad. Also small banners are a good place for Flash.

Don´t design entire pages with Flash your message will get lost. Limit the amount of text you put in Flash if you want the good ranking in the search engines.
Flash is like the color pink. A little is Flash is great but too much ruins the site. The same is true of pink. A little pink in your house is good but a house that is all pink is gawdy.

I’ve listened to the argument about flash being the way to the future for the last 5 years or so. There are two camps those that believe it is the way of the future and those who do not.

However, the real truth is that every website is different. In most causes a little flash here and a little flash there is all most website need.
When going with an all flash website in most cases the back button will not work and it causes web visitor to become upset at the lack of functionality with your website design.

In addition to this, links do not change colors so your web visitor cannot keep track of which links he has visited and which links he has not. This can cause your web visitor to accidently revisit a page he’s already seen costing him (a potential client) time he may not have wanted to waste.

If the above problems don’t make you rethink the use of a total flash website design then you need to keep in mind that not every computer has flash. This means that a visitor to your website may see nothing more than a link to download a plug-in so he/she can view your site.

And we all know that most web surfers are apprehensive about downloading anything from the web. I don’t need or at least I shouldn’t need to tell you about the damage this can do to the amount of money your website is making compared to what it could be making.

Intros involving Flash are seen as a huge waste of time by most web visitors. They normally take a long time to download, especially if your visitor does not have a fast connection. While the content is loading, a visitor often heads to a different site to find the information or product he had originally tried to find from you.

Flash Website Designs

I did a post just before this one about flash and while you can do some really cool stuff with it, you can’t make the money like you can with an html website.

I thought I’d show a couple kickass flash designs and let you try and figure out how to navigate through the sites as well as try and figure out what the sites are trying to
do.

Have fun.

AgencyNet Interactive

Coca-Cola United States

FIERO ANIMALS

Fubon

Sensi Soft

What makes a good website design?

I know a lot of web designers that want to prove how excellent of a graphic designer they are, and they build websites that are extraordinary. I often look at them and think to myself, I wish I could do that but the sad truth is that they will never make their client any money.

A couple years ago, flash was the hottest thing going, now it is rare to run across a flash website. Not that flash is not cool, flash is still a kick ass program however, it will not convert the traffic as well as an HTML website.

Don’t get me wrong, flash still has its place in the world of web design. There is nothing better than an html website with flash sprinkled into the call to actions.
A couple years ago I was made to believe that all websites would be made out of flash before long however, that is not the case and as I have gotten older and wiser I realize it will never be the case.

The purpose of a website is not to amaze the website visitors. The purpose of the website is to make money for the website owner. Nobody that comes to your website cares what your website looks like, they are there for a purpose and that purpose is either;

entertainment

information

or to purchase a product

Those are the only three reasons anyone is going to visit your website. They are not there nor do they care about what you are website looks like. The purpose of the website is to be invisible while at the same time creating a desire inside the visitor that causes them to take some form of action.

Your website design has a purpose however, that purpose is not to amaze the website visitor.