Our Vancouver Flash Design Services

At Digital Diamond Web Media, incorporating multimedia animation into our Vancouver web design projects involves pushing Adobe Flash to its limits.

Flash can be a great asset for any website. Used appropriately, it can attract visitors who are otherwise bored with more static content, and is able to help tell a story better than simple, static graphics.

On the other hand, excessive or improper use of Flash can hinder a website's ability to rank well with search engines, completely detract from the intended delivery of your online message, or even cause website visitors to leave the website in frustration.

» What Is Adobe Flash?

Flash is a multimedia authoring tool used to create engaging distributed content such as web applications, games and movies, as well as content for mobile phones and other embedded devices.

Since being introduced in 1996, Flash technology has become the accepted standard for incorporating animation and interactivity into web pages. Flash is frequently utilized in the creation of animations, advertisements, and a variety of web-page components.

It provides a means to enhance a website visitor's experience through interactive content which employs sound, motion and graphics. Adobe Flash has also proven to be an effective branding and online marketing and communications tool. Flash-based advertisements are commonplace on the web today.

Of late, it has also been employed to integrate video into web pages and develop rich web-based applications. Some examples would include YouTube and Google Video. Adobe Flash also offers scripting capabilities and server-side connectivity for creating engaging online database applications coupled with intricate interface designs.

» How Can Flash Design Help Your Greater Vancouver Business?

Imagine the impact your Vancouver, Greater Vancouver or Vancouver Island web design concept would have by incorporating low-bandwidth corporate & 3D product Flash animations in your static or brochure web design, dynamic or database driven web design or, for that matter, your eCommerce web design.

Typical applications for Flash website design technology include:

• captivating Flash header animations
• intricate Flash menu systems
• eye- & ear-catching Flash banner advertising
• online Flash product/service demonstrations
• animated 3D Flash catalogue imagery
• informative Flash web site tours
• entertaining & educational Flash videos

As an example, our website employs Flash animation in the above header in two components. The logo text randomly plays a sparkle animation at any one of 57 different upper-most points anywhere from a millisecond to 5 seconds apart. The banner randomly selects from just over two dozen scenes, fades between them, sharpens the image, then blurs out and fades into the next. Each one is simple, yet eye-catching and doesn't take one's attention away from the meat of the website. And both embedded files are very small indeed.

However, Flash animations should be used with care and by a knowledgeable website designer. Often times, our Vancouver Flash design team has encountered a website which was comprised of 100% Flash. Or, worse yet, several pages would have virtually the same 100% Flash content embedded with only a few text or image changes - a poor, uninformed implementation of the technology to say the least.

» How Does Our Vancouver Flash Design Team Differ?

Our Flash designers have been working with this multimedia technology off and on for years. We've created header animations, which, upon completion, had the same file size or less as comparable static images and graphics of the same dimension. We've designed Flash advertisements for small business and large corporations alike. We've developed intricate, database-driven menu systems for both simple and complex websites. And, more importantly, we know the pros and cons of employing Flash when it comes to search engines and website marketability.

In keeping with the knowledge and experience garnered over the years, our Vancouver Flash designers develop custom-designed Flash elements you need to make a lasting visual impression on your web site without eliminating the essentials which are crucial to your future success on the search engines.

Contact us for more information on how we can help your online business today - call 604.540.2348 or email us!