Flash Movies in Your Web Site

Ever wanted motion in your web site? You can have it with Flash and many other media types. Be careful that what you put in your site accents the content you're trying to present rather than send an entirely different message or overpower the visitor. Remember that a little motion on your site goes a very long way, as is demonstrated by BubbleTV.net.

Bubble TV works with advertisers and creates video streams that incorporate ads and movie clips. You might have seen their work while waiting for your car to be washed. They felt it was important to draw attention to the media that they work with by incorporating a bit of it on their site.

Rather than have long load times with large video files, we worked with Bubble to incorporate a small branding video on their site. By small, we mean that it is small in dimension, so the rest of the site can be easily viewed and it is small in file size, so it doesn't slow down the viewing experience.

You can incorporate Flash movies in your site that play automatically, as Bubble's does, or you can incorporate clips that have players, allowing the user to start and stop the media as they feel fit.

Flash is a nice choice for web site multimedia because it condenses down nicely in size and it will begin playback before the entire file has downloaded, so that's less wait time for your visitors. Less wait time also means the visitor is more likely to actually view the video you worked so hard in choosing; remember a visitor generally gives up on your web site content loading in under 15 seconds.