we are actually reviewing a new splash screen. The problem with flash is that there are so many users on 56k that it would take them forever to laod, thats why in the past Swamper has avoided it. I'm sure though if you designed 1 and gave us a link to view it everyone would give you feedback and maybe TA could use it. Never any harm in showing your creativity

stay away from flash. flash is tacky and looks unprofessional, cheep, laggy, annoying, its sega game gear quality stuff throw into a modern day era.

I have only once in my life seen a flash design that looks the part, the rest are annoying and get in the way of basic functioning.

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Originally posted by Coup stay away from flash. flash is tacky and looks unprofessional, cheep, laggy, annoying, its sega game gear quality stuff throw into a modern day era. I have only once in my life seen a flash design that looks the part, the rest are annoying and get in the way of basic functioning.

this is far from true, properly designed flash is just as useful as any other tool for web design. It's premature to condemn it to a "blink-tag" like death. Calling it bloated is far from the truth, in fact because it uses key framing the animations are rather small in size, and even smaller if your using vector graphics.

Fair enough to call most implementations of it lame, but the technology itself has its merits, and uses. Does TA really even need an intro?

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I'm with SuperFarStucker on this .. Flash can be used well, but most of the time it isn't. I'm not trying to rail on anyone's Flash skills, I've used it myself and know it takes a lot of effort to make something look good.

That said, only once have I ever seen a Flash intro to a site that I thought "cool!" -- most of the time I just hit skip intro
I came here to see content, not watch a Flash animation.

Plus think of the additional bandwidth it would require....

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Add a couple hundred Kb's to an already annoying splash page?

we could always put a link for fast connections or slow connection right before the flash starts..

Yeah. Just put a skip link and nobody will have to watch it

Flash is big fun when you know how to use it.

flash is definitely not cheap
look at these guys
http://www.2advanced.com/

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Originally posted by Photo_bot_2k1 flash is definitely not cheap look at these guys http://www.2advanced.com/

wow that site is mint looking

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Originally posted by Photo_bot_2k1 flash is definitely not cheap look at these guys http://www.2advanced.com/

... agreed!

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Why not polish up the whole site first instead of an annoying splash
screen that no one will put any effort into watching?

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