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Flash Videos

Webmaster — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:51:42 +0000

We are all aware about the fact that the human mind is stimulated by visualizations. This is the reason why a lot of users flock to the sites that contain video clippings. These sites contain the video clippings of almost everything from demonstrations to movies, online help, and business meetings, personal or public videos. Such videos are slowly making way into our everyday lives. Websites that contain the videos are the highly visited spots on the internet today and these videos are surely going to increase in the years to come.

Incorporating such videos on a HTML site is pretty difficult and hence loads of Flash templates are being used to serve this purpose. In most of the cases, videos go give a better understanding of the subject rather than just reading about it.

Preloaders

Webmaster — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:48:09 +0000

Most of us do not understand the role of preloaders thoroughly. A lot of webmasters do not use them in an appropriate manner. Simply put, preloaders are importantly usability help. They are designed with the intension of simplifying the user’s experience on all kinds of internet bandwidths from dial up connection to the broadband and many more. They assist the user in browsing the internet by displaying a simple message or letting you know the exact time it will take for the webpage to download completely. The process here is to halt the movie and looking for the movie size by throwing in a conditional “if” statement. In case if the number of the frames loaded is higher than or equal to the total file size then the progress is allowed, otherwise the progress goes haywire.

Do Flash Pages Download Slow?

Webmaster — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:47:30 +0000

Flash web templates are preferred by a lot of business owners in order to make their site more attractive. However, there is a myth that the flash pages download extremely slowly and hence the webmasters end up loosing some important traffic. Hence we have made an effort to discuss this in detail and explain the technology better.

To begin with, any HTML template would take the same amount of time to download as the Flash web template. We all must be aware that a website template could be well optimised and designed, regardless of the underlying technology. Nevertheless it is the whole ActionScript seclusion in the Flash environment that can leave you clueless even if you have some prior programming knowledge. Moreover, this myth is prevalent because of the extensive flash intros prevalent today.