Using flash animation helps improve viewer experience

The use of flash animation has always been a concern because of download speeds. Mind you today, this is not a problem as it was only a few days ago.

While most websites allow the viewer to override the flash from being viewed, the tendency among internet users is to just let the flash animation download.

In the early days of our website development service, I suggested the use of a marquee to allow some kind of movement on a web page.

Properly used, flash content can aid the viewing experience of a website. In this post, I feature two recent websites that have had either a new flash sequence installed, or a new site with flash as a main feature.

A long time client, Stainless Sections Pty Ltd, updated their flash content recently. Previously, they had a photo or photos move up and down or sideways to show more of the photo/s concerned.

Now, as you can see here, this includes text and has movement in more than one direction.

A division of a client of a few years is Aztex Sodablast. I like highlighting this site because of the unique way that the flash animation works. As you will note from visiting the site, the way the photos change mimics the process of sodablasting.

In a way, this resembles the use of onomatopoeia in poetry. Or, am I drawing a long bow here. Anyway, the point I am making is horses for courses.

So, why limit the approach of brining animation to your website? There is just so much scope with today’s technology.

Pluse Solutions sets up Australian site

Pulse Solutions, founded in 1997, has recently launched an Australian-based website. Since starting operations, the company has created over 1,000 websites, covering a wide gamut of industries and applications in Europe, USA and Australia.

Today, the company has expanded from the three founders to a team of over 100 specialist developers, technicians and SEO practitioners.

Pulse Solutions has always believed that "the internet should be working for you". Hence, their clients all have highly navigable and user-friendly sites that meet Web 2.0 requirements.

The company has clients around the world, ranging from small micro businesses to multi-million dollar corporations. Pulse Solutions strives, at all times, to at least meet or preferably to exceed client expectations through unsurpassed service and attention to detail.

Their development processes are continually improved and honed to meet the ever-changing nature of the web. This philosophy and approach to the web is one that has served its clients well.

In Australia, JG Marketing Services represents Pulse Solutions. At JG Marketing, we look to provide the benefit of our many years of experience in marketing services and communication and use this expertise, in collaboration with Pulse Solutions, to provide the best web-based solutions for our clients.

Our web team works hand-in-glove with Pulse engineers in the development of practical solutions that are designed to meet not only current, but future needs as well. We specially insist on building the right architecture for websites, which allow a client's site to expand for future development.

We are very happy to continue our relationship with Pulse Solutions and look forward to many years of collaboration in the exciting work that the web provides.

Funny enough, at JG Marketing, we set up our first website in 1997, the year Pulse Solutions started.