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Can I Get A Flash Site?
| Written by David A. Farrell | Published 08-03-07 - Updated 01-02-08 | Page 01 of 01 |
Of course you can get a flash site. EtherJungle.com will build any kind of site you want. However, we do tend to lean toward the construction of websites that only include flash work alongside encoding. This is because content and links embedded in flash animations cannot be read by search engine page crawlers when they visit your website. What this means is that any and all links and copy embedded in flash animation is invisible. And no matter how meaningful either may actually be, neither will contribute to the value of your site with respect to search engine database caching, which is important when it comes to whether or not, or how well, your site shows up in organic search results.
Even when just talking flash intros that ‘dump’ off to fully coded websites, the flash intro takes the place of perhaps the most important page on your site, the index page. Although many sites have high-ranking internal pages, initial index pages (better known as ‘home’ pages), in most cases, predominantly have the highest rank. The argument here is why make things more difficult than they have to be? Why not simply combine flash with encoded content?
Websites without flash intros can make just as much impact when flash animations are included alongside encoded content. A very popular means of including flash animations on a website is in the header section as a banner. Beneath the banner (and sometimes above it), the encoded copy and links are available for search engine crawlers to read and cache. This is one of the practices most favored by our web design team.
Yet banners can be incorporated in even more non-intrusive ways, like in ‘split headers’, where only half of the header (usually the right half, which is read secondly in the natural read order of search engine page crawlers), or in flash ads, which are not exactly banners but small flash animations that can be placed just about anywhere on the page and are usually focused upon a particular aspect or part of your site's message and are used to drive traffic toward those pages. These two methods of incorporating flash animation keep your pages interesting without compromising potential search results rankings.
However, the web designers at EtherJungle.com are not only talented page designers, they are skilled flash developers as well, and are more than happy to design sites that are either all flash or incorporate flash intros. Yet we do discourage the use of these elements in their strictest application out of our expressed interest in adding only quality, content-rich websites to the Internet. As a rule, EtherJungle.com is continuously looking to help improve our collective online experience. The best way we know how to help this happen is to introduce as much unique, topic-valued content as possible to the Web.
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