Flash animations and your website

Making changes to an object’s position or shape in flash animations is called “tweening”. The result should be a smooth transition of the objects, from the first appearance to the final object. This streaming animation can be used on an entire web page or you can choose to use it as part of an html page only. The Internet is full of Flash sites, Flash buttons, and Flash menus created with Macromedia/Adobe Flash software.

What goes hand in hand with Flash animation? It would have to be Flash text. Flash text is exactly what it sounds like. On your website you can convert plain text into text that moves and is full of color and life. Many people recently added Flash text to the rest of their “cool animations” on their pages and claim that return traffic to their websites has increased. Flash is the industry standard software for creating 2D animations.

What do Flash animations have to do with a website? Hopefully, it will grab customers’ attention and bring them back to your site again and again. In this age of information technology, everyone from your Great Aunt Sue to your first grade teacher has a website. Making your site stand out from the crowd is a tall order and that is where computer animations and art animations have a chance to shine.

At one time, networking was basically limited to who we could call or meet face to face. Beyond that, of course, word of mouth, paid press and media hype. Even then, it was probably restricted to the local market, since the cost of sending a message to the next city, state, or country was high.

What could you do? With the Internet anything is possible, so you want your site to stand out with computer graphic animations, gif animations, 2D Flash animations, and even 3D animations. Fortunately, the Internet makes your business globally accessible, so you can reach and touch millions of viewers online. These days, you can earn dollars, yen, euros, pounds, rubles, pesos, etc. because the world is the playing field.

Now that you’re a little more aware of the power of the Internet, check out some computer animation software and learn how to bring your site to life with 3D animation, 2D Flash animation, video animation, or gif animation. A well-designed website will make a portfolio, with its limited space and time, quite obsolete. So, as you look out the window at sunny California, imagine your website being viewed by potential customers in Iceland, Timbuktu, or Nunavut.