by Carol Cheung on October 1, 2009
by Carol Cheung
It may be considered as a child’s play to increase the number of visitors to a website today. Considering how the search engines are strategically optimized these days, it is fairly easy to get gobs of visitors instantly to a new website.
The real difficulty is what you should do to make visitors stay once they visit your website. It is also essential to make them return to your website and be your loyal customers.
The web design plays a deciding role here. Besides being user-friendly, a successful web design should also be appealing. To create an appealing web design is much more difficult than to achieve a user-friendly one.
Thanks to the invention of flash animation in website design, users can now easily create some attractive websites. Flash animation not only make your website look more appealing, it also has a lot of other advantages. Keep reading and you will get the idea of 3 other significant effects of applying flash animations to your websites.
1. In the past, flash animations were not crawled by the search engines. However, the advanced search engine systems now can recognize flash animated websites and make them appear in the search results. These websites will be on the top of the dominant search engines’ priority list in the future, said by the search engine optimization professionals. So it is advantageous to develop flash animated web design now.
2. Websites that only include text and still images are difficult to create interaction with visitors, as visitors are only able to read the attached information. This increases the probability of visitors leaving without return. Flash animations, on the other hand, allows visitors to interact with the website. As a result, visitors will be more amazed and will be more interested to browse your remaining pages.
3. Among the numerous websites you find online these days, it is crucial that a website stands out in order to catch attention. Flash animated websites are still not very popular. The traditional layout with stationary text and images still dominates the field. You sure want your website to look dashing and adding flash animations would help a great deal. Your website will be full of life!
Flash Animations are right there ready for you. You can find many flash web design templates which are offered by professional web design companies in the market. Your first step is to choose your right template and modify it to meet your own needs.
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by Bonita Li on September 29, 2009
by Bonita Li
The question is often raised during meetings with managers and business top dogs: Is it alright to have a flash animated web site? How do we use Adobe Flash properly to build a web site?
Flash is a software for creating graphic-based animation that can help a website become richer and more interactive. Flash is a great tool for creating online training modules, product demonstrations and other types of contents that require interaction. However, one major drawback of Flash is that search engines, including Google, cannot understand the contents of the website if it is all written using Flash. As a result, the search engine’s ranking of such a website would be greatly affected.
What is the meaning of ‘index’? When you can left-click the text on a web site and see it highlighted in blue after dragging over it, the content is classified as ‘indexable’. This is to say that the highlighted text and images or graphics of the site are located in various ‘layers’. Only then can the text-based content be indexed by search engines, such as Google.
So, what exactly is Indexing? It is the process that Google uses to scan the important details of a website. Google would then store the details in their database for Google users to search websites by keywords. If you create the entire website using Flash only, the text on your web page would be layered into the graphics and Google would then not be able to index your website.
In the old days, it is completely impossible for Google to index content written using Flash. Although there are news saying that Google and Adobe are working towards the goal of making content written using Flash more indexable, there are no test results on whether the attempt is successful or not. Therefore, it is of your best interest to incorporate text-based content in your website and avoid using Flash to create your entire web page.
Even though most people cannot resist the attractive appearance and the usefulness of Flash websites, these websites post a needless obstruction to Google as Google mainly seeks for text-based content.
Some websites may have two versions for users – “HTML Site” and “Flash Web Site”. It can solve the problem of Google indexing but it also leads to another problem. With two versions, the web owner needs to govern two different websites and this creates excess burdens on the owner.
Flash has its own merits, but unfortunately also its downsides. What we are suggesting here is that you integrate Flash components into an HTML site. In this way, you will still be able to benefit from the interactivity and attractiveness of Flash, as well as letting Google index the text-based contents and put you in a higher rank under their search results. People who visit your site will not miss out on the stunning design. Visitors will continue to increase since your site is now indexable. Would that not be the best way to resolve all the complications?
by Games Mantra on July 30, 2008
This week the world’s largest online games advertising network Mochi Media announced a new contest for online game developers: “MochiAds Super Flash Game Friday.” The contest will award 10 winners, with each winner receiving $1,000 and a Wacom writing tablet.
The contest is free to enter and runs from July 18th through August 31st. All games added to the MochiAds database and approved during the dates of July 18th through August 31st, and which are enabled for distribution, are eligible. The contest is based on Mochi Media’s weekly Flash Game Friday contest, where the MochiAds team selects a favorite game and gives the winning game developer $100. The week of the Super Flash Game Friday contest marks the 10th week of Flash Game Friday. In recognition of the high caliber of games that have been previously submitted, the prizes will be increased to ten times the normal cash amount and expanded to award ten winners.
Winners will be chosen by the contest judges, which include Erin Bell of Gamezebo.com, Maya Baratz of Mochi Media, and three past MochiAds contest winners.
“These contests are wonderful because they get down to the essence of what Mochi Media is about — giving online game developers a chance to showcase their talents and be rewarded for creating innovative games,” said Jameson Hsu, Mochi Media CEO. “It’s always exciting to reward our developers and see the best of what’s out there.”
“We have consistently seen highly entertaining and creative games win each of our weekly contests,” said Maya Baratz, head of developer relations at Mochi Media and contest judge. “We anticipate the submissions for this contest to be among some of the most engaging games that can be found on the Internet.”
Mochi Media is a casual gaming network that provides tools for game developers, publishers and advertisers. The company provides independent developers of online games with analytics, distribution, and monetization tools — while supplying publishers with a wide array of games they can select to publish to their sites and offering advertisers a way to reach the one-in-three Internet users who play online games.
A comprehensive overview of the contest and submission guidelines can be found at http://www.mochiads.com/contest.
