The web can be a beautiful place. But to some of us there are fears involved: wasting time, being told we need a suspicious download, being given too many ambiguous choices. For the novice this is a bad scene, especially if transmission is slowed. Flash Intros offer a lot visually, but there can be a wait, or a download, or (drat!) an ambiguous choice to make.

To weigh the values and offsets of Flash Intros don’t forget the novice or those cursed with slow hardware. It’s true that most designers are sensitive to these matters, but a customer needs to know his limitations, or his website’s limitations. Customers who come with a Flash Intro request, full of sound and fury, may later rue the traffic reports.

How does a designer break the news? Check out this article and then weigh the differences. State of the Art Flash Intros can be found at 2advanced.com or neostream.com, just look at their portfolios or customers for Flash Intro at its finest. Two of 2advanced.com client Flash Intros are at Ford and at City of Weston. Two of Neostream’s client Flash Intro websites are at Samsung and at James & Taylor. And, if money is a factor then consider a Flash Intro Template. Template Monster has 184 hot choices that are priced right. Here are two examples of TemplateMonster’s Flash Intro templates: flash intro #10806 and flash intro #6454.

And Flash is afterall read equally well by all browsers.

God Bless those “skip intro” and “non-flash version” buttons and the designers who add them. And remember that Flash is in the eye of the beholder.

Arthur Browning