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Animated and dynamic websites using Flash

Flash is fantastic at creating high impact on your website and nothing does it better. When used for the right reasons Flash can provide your website and business with tremendous benefits. If you can provide remote training or distance learning then the animation Flash provides full design control to maximise creativity, resulting in a consistent end-user experience across a variety of platforms.

According to Macromedia's website, Flash Player is installed on 98% of desktops globally and Macromedia Flash content reaches 97.6% of internet viewers.

The strongest and most effective use of Flash in the opinion of Quiet Storm is in the following areas:

Producing tutorials, learning tools and interactive games

The Flash Platform enables educators worldwide to deliver exceptional experiences in the classroom, in the workplace, and in the community.

Flash Ticker - take control of dynamic and animated content on your website home page

Developed by Quiet Storm, the Flash Ticker provides you with the opportunity to take control of dynamic and animated content on your website home page. The content can include images and be pre-programmed so that you can spend a few minutes a month to present a new home page feature every day.

Video - it's the most widely deployed video platform on the Internet.

Flash Video is based on the technology behind the Flash Player - so it's ready to play in almost all PCs worldwide. Imagine not having to worry about the platform, the format, or whether your customers will be able to see your show - because they will.

Take care when using Flash

Flash is at its strongest and most effective when it is not used to create the entire site but embedded within the structure of your website. The one downside with Flash is that it isn't search engine friendly but by embedding the Flash code within the structure of your database driven website you can have the best of both worlds - rich graphics and animation coupled with search engine optimised pages.

Beware the progress bar

If your Flash results in a progress bar being displayed while it loads then it needs to be worth the wait or your web visitor will either use the 'skip button' (defeating the object!) or worse still go to another website.

We have created Flash for many websites and try to follow this simple rule (where clients allow!)

Flash and search engines

The other technical issue to be aware of if your site is built using Flash is that search engines cannot read Flash websites, so you will need to have some html pages to provide the search engine with content to list if you want to be found on the search engines. Quiet Storm would never build a whole website using Flash and always seek to make the Flash just a component of the website structure.

Some of our Flash work

Take a look at the case studies featured and see how we have used Flash.

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