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Are Flash Intros Making A Comeback?

Posted on 09. Dec, 2008 by Dave in Tutorials

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TemplateMonster unveiled today their latest invention – the Flash CMS Intros. If you don’t know what a Flash Intro is just think of it as like an informative mini movie trailer made to give your clients a little glimpse of your company services and activities.

Like Dynamic Flash Galleries, another similar product of theirs, Flash CMS Intros are Flash and XML driven and offer an admin panel. That means you can now manage the content and design of your Flash Intro without having any kind of special Flash software or skills – everything can be done only with the help of the convenient and functional admin panel features.

Personally, I don’t see these Flash CMS intros as being all that convenient, from a design point a view there is really not that much leg room, the only thing it lets you do really, is edit the color scheme. Changing the logo through the admin panel is no real step above just replacing the original logo in the images folder with your own logo, which is the fastest and easiest way to replace your logo still.

The other features are you can edit the texts, set the redirect URLs and the intro tools (skip, replay, sound on/off links etc.) Price wise they range between $119 for really nauseating , to $92 for just as annoying but not quite as prolonged.

Overall they’re kinda neat, I guess, I just don’t know what real website uses Flash intros anyway. I mean their just irritating, nobody watches it more than once and you spend half the time looking for the skip button so you can get the hell out of there – users don’t just want to watch they want to participate, interact and be well informed. I can see this being useful if it were more like an interactive video narrative or some sort of informative Flash presentations otherwise, who cares?

Then again, I dont know, you tell me, are Flash intros making a comeback?

Tags: Flash