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.