Flash
Add some spice to your website!
Banners, advertisements, logos, video players, slideshows, entire websites can earn some zazz with a touch of flash.
Our flash artists consider brand, target audience, and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) when creating your flash project.
Mockups of still graphics and revisions are often performed based on project scope and budget. Let us know your scope and we can tell you the budget, or let us know the budget and we can tell you what we can do within it.
Honest Tips Regarding Flash:
(1) Google & SEO: Google cannot crawl Flash very well, if at all. It is suggested limiting Flash to banners. Do not use Flash to code your navigation, do not build the entire site in Flash. Flash is an image, and search engines cannot read the text written within an image, and cannot follow the links. Looking cool is one thing, but if nobody can find your site because you’ve gone flash-happy, that’s another thing. Our team can consult you on what items should be done in flash, and what features can alternatively be achieved through other means such as using JQuery and javascript for the same neat effects.
(2) Cell Phones & Functionality: IPhones and other SmartPhones, as of 2010, cannot see Flash. So a visitor to your site’s browser will not be able to see what it is your are trying to show, and often will not be able to navigate a website built in flash. One day this may change, but for now, it is safe to limit what you use Flash for.
(3) Browsers & Updates: Older browsers cannot display flash properly, or cannot display the current version of Flash. A small % of users have old browsers or out-of-date Java.
(4) Site Updates & Ease: Sites built in Flash take more time to edit, and require higher expertise to update. They also require the original source files in order to edit them, which most client’s forget to ask for or lose over time. Consider costs of maintenance when deciding to built your site entirely in Flash. If you do build your site on Flash, ask for the original source files. Also, sites built on Flash generally cannot have a Content Management System, so you typically lose the ability to edit the content yourself.
(5) Strong debate rages between Apple (mac and iphone makers) and Adobe (Flash makers). You can read more about the debate here, http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/30/adobe-fires-back-steve-jobs-flash-iphone/
Apple says on http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ , “Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. We have discussed the downsides of using Flash to play video and interactive content from websites, but Adobe also wants developers to adopt Flash to create apps that run on our mobile devices.”
Adobe responded on http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2010/04/moving_forward.html