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Flash Intro Templates Builds Up the Website Performance

By Maxine Winter

If you want to really grab the attention of web surfers poking around on web sites, you need a powerful intro page- one that will keep potential customers coming back for more. You need a Flash intro to your site!

Whether you want to establish dynamic or static website, there is no better option than flash intro templates. For enhancing website presentation and give it a professional and polished look, than these layouts are extremely beneficial. They are very simple to work with and do not require any specific knowledge for management or making it customized. There is no requirement of using ultra modern designing software for Flash intro templates. Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash MX 6 and HTML editor are some commonly used tools.

One of the reasons for the decreasing popularity of Flash intros is because it fails to fulfill any useful purpose. It is simply an animated visual presentation of appearing /disappearing images and text messages from various parts of the screen with all the animation and interactivity actually serving no particular purpose, in many cases not ever succeeding in attracting the visitor's attention.

Another disadvantage is that your homepage takes much more time to load when you use Flash intros. When you create a Flash intro, it surely has raster graphics, which increase the file size of the .swf file leading to a greater overall time to fully load your homepage. Now it would be too much to expect your time conscious visitor to keep waiting while your Flash intro gets loaded and then again go on to read your animated sales pitches. You know very well that had you been in the shoes of your visitor you would have just clicked out instead of waiting.

Embedding music and sound files in Flash intro movies increases their file sizes again leading to greater download time. Moreover, not every visitor is a music lover and even if he is, he may not like music forced upon him instead of being able to listen to what he prefers. However, the biggest disadvantage of using a Flash intro is difficulty in being picked up by search engines, which cannot index text embedded in movies. It is also wrong to suppose that placing keywords in Meta tags or within HTML comment tags is going to overcome this problem as even an advanced search engine like Google faces problems indexing text and following links created in Flash movies.

Other uses for Flash: Flash creates an interesting array of websites and animation with ActionScript (a computer program language), and has done so since the beginning days of Flash 2. Vectors and raster graphics add to the versatility of the program, aiding in the creation of a more interactive experience for all who choose to view or create with it. Flash is saved under .swf (small web file) filing extensions.

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