Interactive Flash Web Sites Las Vegas

There are many types of websites, from ecommerce, to informational, to entertainment.  Some types of websites need to quickly catch the attention of the visitor. eg be "flashy".  Entertainment  web sites especially, fall into this category.   To help quickly catch the interest of a new visitors to your website, can be an interactive flash web site.

Flash technology was developed by Adobe:

• Flash is a multimedia graphics program specially for use on the Web
• Flash enables you to create interactive Web Sites
• 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 can be created with sound, moving text, images or video.

Flash can be used for more then just a banner, introduction or an annimation video.  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 interactive flash web site in las vegas, you can contact our professional team of flash experts at Web Coast Design.  Interactive flash websites can be pricy, with costs ranging from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on many factors.  Interactive Flash websites are not for everyone, and are usually reserved for the larger companies.