How To ?

[glennk]

How is the intro to this website created ? and is creating a similar page easy or difficult ?

 

http://www.whitby-cottages.co.uk/

 

Its the opening page of the site which is sort of animated.

[Chris Goddard]

One for Uncle NICK I think or Si??

[JackPike]

It would be very time consuming more than difficult to produce basically there are several ways to produce work like this.

 

here is a link to a good tutorial site Flash Tutorials

[Elton]

How is the intro to this website created ?

 

In Shockwave Flash.

 

Great for making games, I'm told.

[Si...]

Yep its flash (yes good for games Elton)

 

One problem with flash is that if you don`t have a html link leading into your site, search engine spiders cannot get into the site to index it.

 

Another problem is that not many people will want to wait for it to load, 99.9% of people want to be looking for good content to read, browse etc straight away.

 

Yes intro pages may look pretty, but ask yourself, is it necessary? IMHO definitely not.

[nick]

Complete waste of everyone's time and bandwidth.

 

I've not yet seen a flash intro that is worth having.

 

Animation is a tool that should be used wisely and sparingly when the delivery medium is the web. If you can do it in html and .jpg's then do it (and css and sparingly in javascript) if you can't then you need to ask if it is really a website that you are needing

 

There are some things that flash is very good for inside a website, but in my totally unhumble opinion it should be totally banned as an "intro" to a site.

[Si...]

Looks like we're on the same wavelength for once Nick lol

[Elton]

That makes three of us. I was just a bit more subtle, using the 'games' comment

 

I've never grasped the idea that people would give up their index page for something that would be missed by search engines.

[nick]

That makes three of us. I was just a bit more subtle, using the 'games' comment

 

I've never grasped the idea that people would give up their index page for something that would be missed by search engines.

 

But you know me Elton, I'm not exactly renowned for my subtlety.

 

Ya fat Essex git

[glennk]

Fully agree with all of you, I am not keen on flash sites and personally hate this one especially the bit with the ice cream van driving up the map, whats all that about ?, but I have been asked to do a website for a lady who owns holiday cottages and her first comment was I like The Astin's site can you do something similar. I will go back to her and put across those points which are well made but if the lady wants a site like that and she's gonna pay me some cash would you argue with her ?

 

So how do you go about creating the intro ? is there any free software around to do it ? and how long would such an intro take to build ?

 

I would make sure the inside of the site was html and point in some links to the inner pages to get the search engines in there.

 

Cheers - Glenn