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Does Having Flash In My Website Sell Better?

September 7th, 2006
Author: Kyle

Having Flash movies on your site can create a site of magical proportions. I don’t think many people would agree that having Flash hurts a site’s image. Most often than not, Flash can help create “curb appeal” and impose a lasting impression on your site’s visitors. So should you include Flash with your site?

Companies often ask web design companies to create Flash websites. Many of these firms are capable designing an outstanding website, but how many are able to optimize its pages for the search engines? Flash often throws most programmers for a loop. Search engines certainly can’t spider Flash making any content contained within irrelavent in terms of SEO. What about the other obvious difficulties: long loading time, browser issues, firewalls that block Flash, lack of usability – and the statistics that show more than 80 percents of online users prefer non-flash sites? Considering that search engines cannot read Flash, what are the chances for such a website to be indexed anyway? So what’s the point in having an amazing website if it’s difficult to use and no one can find it?

The truth of the matter is that if you do choose to include flash in your site, do so sparringly. Never try to create an animated beast - one that takes an eternity to download and doesn’t help you out in terms of online marketing at all. CGI Pro can create beautiful, stylish Flash graphics while at the same time creating a site that ranks extremely well. You get the visitors, and you impress them. We do our best to balance both worlds.

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