Just noticed that we haven’t updated our blog. Jenni breaks her wrist and we all stop writing. What the…..?!#@* I want to share this link cause despite the fact that most of us in this group are not mad for flash yet alone splash pages, this is just such a perfect branding example. Before you even see any jewels, you see satin and silver tones and hear a sexy jazz singer. Then the satin morphs to crystal clear water….and only then, a perfect diamond…. Personally, I’d make an exception in a case like this. Anyone else? This could be the topic of the week if people respond….since we don’t have one.
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4 Comments posted on "Ever a reason to say OK to flash?"
Matt Mayes on December 8th, 2008 at 7:44 pm #
Flash is OK for media: slideshows, video and music players, games, etc. I didn’t like that site because it blasted me with music right away. I like to choose when I hear music on a website.
rickey on December 8th, 2008 at 11:49 pm #
In this case, I’m looking at it from a marketing standpoint. To me it’s an excellent visualization of the brand. I didn’t expect it to win high praises from the web developers in our group.
Sandy Weisz on December 9th, 2008 at 9:21 am #
But we’re not speaking as web developers — we’re speaking as users. As a user, I’m not interested in experiencing their brand, I’m interested in finding out information — pricing, availability, product listing, whatever. Their implementation of a splash page, and then their choice to enclose the whole site in a pop-up Flash interface (thus hiding their whole site from search engines and preventing direct linking) only gets in the way of my finding what I’m after.
Matt Mayes on December 9th, 2008 at 9:40 am #
Ditto. My decision to close out the site after a few seconds was from user-Matt, not web-guy-Matt. Post a comment
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