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Case in Point: Creative Flash Preloaders
March 13, 2008 at 1:51 pm by Eric
[Note: to be read with a tone of bitter irony] In my post How to Know if You're a Super Bowl Web Designer I railed against the absurdity of splash pages and Flash preloaders.Flash websites are extremely creative and visually compelling. The creativity exudes, overflows, and even spills over into the preloaders. Smashing Magazine put together a wonderful gallery of Flash preloaders for all us designers to gawk at. As long as designers are putting in all the effort to create amazing dynamic Flash sites they might as well stun us with brilliant preloaders too. Their clients paid them a ton of money to build them so we might as well enjoy. It's a good thing they spent all this effort, boy if they failed to capture my attention with such clever and entertaining preloaders I may not have ever stopped by their website in the first place. And while I hate waiting for a website to load (aren't all websites supposed to be fast loading, or is that just a suggestion for boring websites?) I'm glad they at least were considerate enough to keep me entertained while I wait. Please designers, will you ever realize that your client's website is not about entertainment but about their content? Just give me the information as fast and easy as possible, then go design a movie poster or something to placate your pent up creative urges. |
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Comments 
 Chris |
March 14, 2008 9:41 AM *Sigh* I agree. |
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Justin |
April 4, 2008 4:26 PM Humph! Justin is insulted! (great designers always speak in the third person) |