Do I need a flashy website?
// Do any of you actually wait for Flash intro’s to download? You know what I mean – you visit a new website and you see a blank screen and a small ‘Skip Intro’ link at the bottom. You are now expected to wait what seems like a lifetime, for the webmasters graphic spectacular to download. Ok, if you are using a fast connection the wait won’t be as long, but there are still an awful lot of people using dial-up connections (and that includes me – my street doesn’t have cable and the telephone lines are the ‘wrong type’ for a digital connection!) So, back to my original question, how many of you actually wait for the intro to download? If you are anything like me, my guess is not very many of you and most of you will go straight to the ‘Skip Intro’ link. The reason for making this point is this, I get emails from people every week asking for assistance with building websites and the one thing I can’t stress enough is ‘keep it simple’. Surfers want the facts quickly – they don’t want to be bombarded with complex graphic images swirling around their PC
