Flash

Flash can be beautiful. Flash can be subtle. Flash can entertain you. But Flash can also be functional by reducing long dreary pages to tiny little gadgets. Flash can do anything you want it to do.

We have used Flash for a variety of purposes such as:

• splash pages (those colorful animated pages before you arrive at a company's home page)
• aesthetic reasons to achieve subtle, beautiful designs
• gadgets such as interactive meals that helps users figure out nutritional values of commonly consumed meals
• functional reasons by reducing a huge number of contact pages, directions, office locations, and e-mail directory into one tiny, easy-to-use page

In the last few years, many of our clients have requested that they want to be able to make edits to their own sites (rather than have to call us every time). In order to make Flash work with our Publishing Tool, we have created a layer between the Flash front-end and the back-end database. As a result, when clients make changes using our Publishing Tool, their Flash site (as well as flat site, if they have one) are automatically updated.

Now that Flash plug-ins have become standard, we are utilizing Flash more and more. However, we only use it if we cannot attain the same effect utilizing standard browser functionality. We always try to use the simplest technology possible to ensure cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility. When we do use Flash, we try to make do with the oldest plug-in so that your users do not have to download the latest plug-in just to see your site.