Flash Animation  Website Development

Flash is a multimedia platform that has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to websites. Flash is commonly used to create animation, to integrate video into web pages, and to develop rich media applications.

A simple Flash animation can differentiate your website from your competitor’s. It can make for a more interesting, powerful, and memorable user experience. However, if Flash is not done properly, it can lead to an annoying, slow loading or unusable website. Web users seeking specific content may be irritated by an irrelevant Flash presentation that lacks the information they are looking for — particularly if they have followed an ad or search engine keyword result to reach your site.

When Mudbug Media develops Flash solutions, we observe many industry guidelines such as:

• Use Flash as a visual medium. Search engines (including Google) have not perfected the algorithmic programs needed to read these graphics.
• Use Flash only where needed. Flash is fine for a rich media experience but rely on HTML for content and navigation.
• Use Flash sparingly. Flash is not always functional on older browser versions, limited low-bandwidth connections, and mobile devices such as a cell phone or PDA.

Mudbug Media can design and develop a Flash strategy that delivers a high-impact addition to your website. However, we would never build an entire site with Flash for a variety of reasons: slower loading time; difficulty in bookmarking pages; content that cannot be easily indexed by search engines (producing search engine results).