There are many types of websites, from ecommerce, to informational, to entertainment. Some types of website need to quickly catch the attention of the visitor. eg be flashy. Entertainment sites especially fall into this category. To help quickly catch the interest of a new visitor to your website, a custom flash introduction can be created that is like a small movie production.

Flash is a technology developed by Adobe:

• Flash is a multimedia graphics program specially for use on the Web
• Flash enables you to create interactive "movies" on the Web
• Flash uses vector graphics, which means that the graphics can be scaled to any size without losing clarity/quality
• Flash does not require programming skills and is easy to learn

Animated images and Java applets are often used to create dynamic effects on Web pages, also but the advantages of Flash are:

• Flash loads much faster than animated images
• Flash allows interactivity, animated images do not
• Flash does not require programming skills, java applets do

Flash Intros can be created with sound, moving text, images or video.
One concern with flash introductions is that although they are interesting, exciting and fun to watch the first time, the excitment drops off after repeated shows. That is why there is usually a SKIP button to allow a visitor who has seen the Custom Flash Introduction to skip viewing the introduction again and go directly to the internal pages of the website.

Flash can be used for more then just the introduction. Mater of fact, the whole website can be done in flash, but with some negative consequences.

If you are designing a site that you want to rank well in search engines, chances are a pure flash design will not be beneficial to you. Although search engines are getting better all the time, they still have trouble spidering and gathering information from flash sites. This difficulty usually results in flash pages performing below that of normal text based HTML web sites.

Not everyone has the Macromedia Flash player installed, so it is a possibility that you will alienate some of your potential audience if you go with a pure flash design. Often web developers will create two sites: flash and normal HTML to prevent losing any visitors. The new IPAD by apple, is will not support flash, for example.

Flash can also be very computationally intensive making animations and videos look great on your top of the line computer, but visitors with older technology may only see a choppy, slugglish slideshow that leaves them with a bad feeling. Also, load times can be long,even for broadband internet, since the amount of information to load can be quit large.

On the other hand, as they say, a picture can be worth a thousand words. For some situations, there is nothing better then a short, to the point flash presentation. For more information about a custom flash introduction in las vegas, you can contact our professional team of flash experts at Web Coast Design.