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Flash Web Design & Portfolio
What is Flash?
Flash is based on a file format called Shockwave.
Shockwave files will play in a web browser if the
browser has the Flash plug-in. Almost all browsers from
version 3 onwards have this plug-in therefore almost all
users can see a Flash movie running within a web page.
Although Flash movies can run as a standalone exec file,
they are often embedded within HTML pages. A movie can
cover the whole web page or only a small part alongside
normal HTML output.
What can Flash do?
A Flash movie can provide animation, sound and
interactivity to a page. Text and graphic animation is
possible with slide, zoom and fade effects. Movies can
play in a linear fashion or can be directed to different
scenes depending on a user’s mouse movements.
If movement is required in a web page, GIF files can be
animated but there is a drawback. Since each frame of
animation requires a separate image, the resulting file
size needs to be very large and this slows download.
With Flash, the animation is created in real time so
very small file sizes are possible. With spectacular
animation and interaction Flash is a clear winner over
animated GIFs.
Are there any drawbacks to using Flash in a web page?
If Flash is used as a means to add movement and interest
to a web page by embedding small movies instead of
perhaps using animated GIFs, then Flash has no real
drawbacks and has the advantage of very fast download.
However, if Flash is used for site navigation links, for
example, then there can be drawbacks.
The obvious one is that if a user’s browser can’t
display Flash then the user won’t see the links to other
pages on the site - although this might not be
considered so problematic since almost all browsers can
display Flash.
Another difficulty can arise with search engines. Most
search engine spiders ‘crawl’ a web site by using the
site links to move from one page to the next, indexing
each page as they go. If site links are within a Flash
movie they will be invisible to a search engine spider
and the spider will crawl no further than the opening
page. However, page links can be duplicated on another
part of the page as HTML links in order to overcome this
problem.
Request A Free Quote on your custom Flash web design
project
At The Spider India
we are a team of create designers who can work flash and
create wonderful flash based websites, presentations and
banners.
Few samples of our
work
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