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trebor8
19th June 2010, 21:37
Hi
Can you help.
I am looking for personal recommendations for someone to do me a flash intro for my site
Prefer recs from this forum as i've had a good service so far
> I am looking for personal recommendations for [...] a flash intro for my site
Don't.
trebor8
20th June 2010, 18:46
on this occasion a flash intro maybe appropriate.
it's not a full page intro rather than a window that takes a space on my homepage to illustrate what my product is/does. Flash will illustrate this perfectly.
Roll on HTML5
Flash designer anyone?
CEGraphicsUK
20th June 2010, 21:17
If I come accross a site and it had an intro 99% of the time i will just hit the back button and look elsewhere!! I would seriously consider this and if you decide to go ahead make sure you have a 'skip' button displayed very clearly.
Adrian
ceguk.co.uk
trebor8
20th June 2010, 22:02
ok thanks for the advice
FLASH DESIGNER ANYONE!
VNP Design
21st June 2010, 14:22
Contact us, we can give free advice.
VNP Design
VNP Design
21st June 2010, 21:41
Flash intros for any website is no no. Why? I guess I will going to use someone else’s words as I could not find better way to express it: "… Expecting the visitor to first wait while the Flash intro loads and then expecting them to read your animated sales pitches - well, that's too much of expectation from your time conscious visitors."
Tomas V.
trebor8
21st June 2010, 23:12
Thanks for the plagiarized "free advice"
Flash desi...............forget it!
i'll start a new thread askin why i shouldn't have flash on my website instead
MrTempleDene
21st June 2010, 23:30
I would forget a Flash intro, flash intros will kill your sales, no-one likes them apart from the marketing bod and the designer
people come to your site to get information quickly, don't give up on having a Flash sales ptich, but make it "optional" so people are not forced to watch it every time they visit.
And remember, a lot of people (due to company policy, or on iPhones or iPads etc.) CANNOT VIEW FLASH
My self I advise any client to avoid it, except for "extras" like product demos and such, things a potential customer might really want to see.
trebor8
21st June 2010, 23:47
Thanks for the plagiarized "free advice"
Flash desi...............forget it!
i'll start a new thread askin why i shouldn't have flash on my website instead
oh the irony.
MASSEY
21st June 2010, 23:50
Trebor considering you are trying to seo, flash and seo dont mix.
Are you sure you have thought this through...........
trebor8
22nd June 2010, 00:17
Massey at last a sane response
Of course i have thought about this and also for SEO reasons
The reason for a flash intro (the term intro i used loosely) is purely as a visual to get my product across, not as a means of navigation or site entrance etc etc
although i admit i'm considering if a gif animation alternative could be possible
The flash will take up aprox 30% of my home page, the rest of this page is with enough descriptives content/text, inc, H1 headers etc.
Hope this deters "ere some free advice brigade" somehow i still think they're goin to offer there 2pennies worth
bizfox
22nd June 2010, 01:41
rather than flash animation, spend your money on high quality copywriting
abpublish
22nd June 2010, 14:46
Trebor considering you are trying to seo, flash and seo dont mix.
I have implemented Flash Intros for many customers and this can easily be done in a way that has a zero impact on SEO and a zero impact on those who do not have Flash installed. The default of the page is to show the pure HTML home page and if a JavaScript sniffer detects that the user has the correct version of Flash installed, overlays the Flash intro.
Those users with no Flash installed (or an earlier version), users without JavaScript running and search engine spiders do not even pass through the Flash intro. It is as if it is not there.
However, all of my customers, without exception, who had a Flash intro eventually ask me to remove it as their customers complained a lot even though there was a skip intro button.
If what you are looking for is a Flash element on a page in order that you can animate some features, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me. The developer should be able to show a photo in its place for those users who do not have Flash installed. It is very easy to get all this working seamlessly.
Think of the Flash element as an active image that most (but not all) users can see. It does not need to affect your SEO nor your "Flashless" users.
Ian
trebor8
22nd June 2010, 15:45
I have implemented Flash Intros for many customers and this can easily be done in a way that has a zero impact on SEO and a zero impact on those who do not have Flash installed. The default of the page is to show the pure HTML home page and if a JavaScript sniffer detects that the user has the correct version of Flash installed, overlays the Flash intro.
Those users with no Flash installed (or an earlier version), users without JavaScript running and search engine spiders do not even pass through the Flash intro. It is as if it is not there.
However, all of my customers, without exception, who had a Flash intro eventually ask me to remove it as their customers complained a lot even though there was a skip intro button.
If what you are looking for is a Flash element on a page in order that you can animate some features, that sounds perfectly reasonable to me. The developer should be able to show a photo in its place for those users who do not have Flash installed. It is very easy to get all this working seamlessly.
Think of the Flash element as an active image that most (but not all) users can see. It does not need to affect your SEO nor your "Flashless" users.
Ian
Thanks Ian, i may now have someone to do exactly what you have just outlined. If not, i would like approach you for your services.