You might want to hold off on that, here are a few reasons why.

• Studies show that 80% of visitors hate flash intros.
• They’re annoying.  Visitors want to get to the content of your site as quickly as possible and with as few clicks as possible.  Splash intro pages waste time by forcing your visitors to either sit and watch or click unnecessarily through to another page.  Your website should make it as easy as possible for people to get what they want, not to put roadblocks in their way.
• Splash pages will affect your search engine ranking. By having a splash page instead of primary content on the home page of your website you’re not only putting a roadblock up for your visitors, but for search engines too, this will certainly have a negative effect on your ranking.
• Web expert Jared Spool of “User Interface Engineering” says:
  When we have clients who are thinking about Flash splash pages, we tell them to go to their local supermarket and bring a mime with them. Have the mime stand in front of the supermarket, and, as each customer tries to enter, do a little show that lasts two minutes, welcoming them to the supermarket and trying to explain the bread is on aisle six and milk is on sale today.
• If you were to survey people who use the internet on a regular basis most of them will admit they will click on “skip intro” before watching the splash animation. By looking into website access logs it has been shown that at least 25% don’t even make it past the splash page.
• Flash discriminates against the visually impaired.  “Screen readers” cannot read flash content.  Users with visual impairment will typically enlarge the text on a page to enable them to read it, if there is no text, there’s no reason for them to stay on your site.
• Typically visitors will be coming to to your website looking for information, not entertainment.

Google have been the most successful search engine for years, they’ve developed the most comprehensive and most used online maps of the world and now they’re taking the internet to a whole new level with the introduction of Google Wave which will revolutionise the way you develop multi-author documents within the workplace and how communicate with colleagues and friends around the world.  The video below runs for 120 minutes but set some time aside and sit down and be amazed at what is just around the corner. Continue Reading »

It seems a new pyramid scheme claiming to be bigger than ebay has started doing the rounds in Gippsland.

Please remember that ‘too good to be true” offers usually are. Any new scheme that requires you pay out money or sign up other people to make a fortune is a bad idea, you’ll get burned and risk take your friends and family with you. Continue Reading »

Bridges on Argyle is a new motel & serviced apartments in Traralgon and Anchor Web Design recently launched their website at www.traralgonmotel.com.au.

If you’re looking for accommodation in Gippsland, or particularly in the Traralgon area check it out.

They also have business & conference facilities available and have special wedding night package.

Cee K’s is a newly renovated cafe & function room next door to the GrowMaster Garden Centre in Sale.  Cee K’s are developing a website to provide information for their new cafe, take-away and function clients.  Because the business is new they’re not listed in the white pages and until we put up a temporary single webpage for them people didn’t know how to find them.  The webiste will be developed over the next few weeks and launched soon.

Centra Developments’ new website has been lauched.

The design of CentraDevelopments.com.au reflects the modern look of their business and their motto “Gippsland’s trusted designer builder and construction specialists”.

The simple approach we took with this design reflects the tried and true saying “an image speaks a thousand words“.

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES pay an invoice from the company “Domain Register Pty Ltd”.

This company has operated under various names over a number of years and while the scams vary slightly from invoices for domains you don’t own to very overpriced “renewal” invoices their motivations remain the same, to scam you out of money. Continue Reading »

Websites and news portals all over the world are reporting the serious security hole discovered in all versions of Internet Explorer and web users are being urged to use an alternative browser until the problem is fixed. Continue Reading »

If you’ve visited recently you’ll probably say “about time!”. Like anyone in a trade, it’s always your own “backyard” that gets neglected and Anchor Web Design has needed an overhaul for quite some time, we’ve been too busy working on our client’s sites to have time to dedicate to our own. Continue Reading »