Chris McIntosh Designs understands Flash and Animations
 

Developing website that have great graphic design, content, and are search engine optimized are important to Chris McIntosh Designs.  Another thing that is of utmost importance to our firm is knowing when to use flash animation so that it benefits your site and using the flash animations.  It is unfortunate that something that can lend itself so well to the imagination can actually cause your site to loose clients and drop in rank on the search engines.  That is because poorly designed flash applications take away your chance to let search engines know what your page is about.  They lack the ability to display information to those that have sight disabilities.
 

What role does flash animation play in a website?
 

At Chris McIntosh Designs we achieve a balance of animation, imagery, and textual content by carefully integrating flash into your site so that the flash animation plays a part in the website  rather than making it the primary focus then your site has the opportunity to flourish.  There is times where a flash site is called for, but it is becoming harder and harder to make the argument that a whole website should be driven by flash alone.

When deciding on where to place your flash animations on the site and how to develop the video and animation elements that will be needed you should take time and think if you would want to see that same content 100 times.  Because that is sometimes how many times a client will see your flash application.  If it is functional or if it is something like a Game or video tutorial, then by all means you should put the time and effort into it, but however if it is only adding a minnimum value to the overall site then maybe the same can be accomplished with something that requires less resources like Javascript, PHP, or AJAX technologies.
 

Content Management Powered Flash Applications
 

Chris McIntosh Designs has the distinct privilage of being among a small minority of flash and web developers that has the capability of placing a powerful CMS like Drupal in control of a flash movie, application or game.  We have the experience needed to ensure that your flash application talks smoothly with your Drupal installation.  This provides you with a excellent means of updating your flash Application an Excellent example of something like this is the below is a 3d Wall with some of the items from our portfolio being displayed.

[INSERT FLASH CONTENT]
 

Using Standards and the Latest ActionScript
 

In striving for excellent ActionScript programming Chris McIntosh Designs uses ActionScript 3.0 in all of its projects this means that the code runs better and is more stable than many of the ActionScript 2.0 counterparts. As the web moves forward so must the programming languages that we use to create the internet.  If your Flash Developer is still using ActionScript 2.0 ask him or her why and if they cannot give you an answer then contact us and we will walk you through the process.