Avoid flash intros
I guess you all know what a flash intro is. It is an animation of about 30 seconds long (or more) filled with “spectacular” (and useless) effects with which the developer sought to demonstrate to your client These animations have no practical purpose and have so many disadvantages and should at present be almost obsolete. It is practically impossible to get a Web designer whose portfolio is not covered by 80% for sites with flash intros or developed completely in flash. In this post I will try to give a few good reasons why should flash intros, take my point of view, to pass into oblivion.
1.Your visitors do not like flash intros – Do you think your visitors will have 30 seconds or more of their lives watching animation or an animated message?
2.Google does not like Flash intros – Well, to tell the truth, Google does not like flash in general. When I say “do not like” I mean that Google can not even properly index the contents of a Flash animation
3. We have to wait till it loads! – This is the height, in many cases, Flash intros are so heavy that we have to wait another 15-20 seconds looking for a preloader that shows the animation is loading.
4.Consumption of resources – most of these intros include music or audio files, which not only reduces the loading speed of the animation, but also consumes more space and bandwidth
5.Consumption of man-hours – Do you have idea of the time it takes to develop a flash intro moderately attractive? So much time developing something that many people will hate.
