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Titled: Flash Forms for Superior Flash Email Design
Flash Forms for Superior Flash Email Design
Article Summary: Flash forms and Flash email design are simple to add to any website using drag and drop technology, and with Google now recognizing Flash in their algorithm design then it is an application that any web designer, amateur or professional, will find difficult to ignore.
No doubt you have heard of Flash email forms, but thought them very difficult to design. You might even think that having Flash forms on your website slows it up and makes it impossible for Google to spider and list in their results pages. Email design using Flash email forms is impossible for anybody but an expert programmer due to the coding and scripting needed. Wrong on all four counts!
Does that surprise you? Perhaps you don't believe that, and think that Flash is very difficult to use simply because the results it gives are so fabulous, and make a website come alive. You can't do that, can you? It's far too difficult unless you have a university degree. Wrong! Flash is easy to incorporate onto your website: even your children could do it, or perhaps that doesn't mean much these days when the kids know more than the parents.
You no doubt firmly believe that flash email forms must be slow because you have come across these clunky and ponderous Flash introductions to some websites that take an age to load. Wrong again! That isn't a problem with Flash; it's a problem with the people using it. Flash can be very quick, and certainly quick enough to produce a fabulous looking form that just screams out at the visitor to fill in, and is practically impossible to ignore.
So how about the Google thing: that must be true since everybody knows that Google can't read Flash so any flash content is ignored. Wrong yet again! Google has now found out how to spider and crawl Flash content, and Flash webpages can now be fully indexed and listed in the SERPs, just as any other website based entirely on HTML. Now that might not be relevant to email forms that Google is unlikely to see, but even the word 'Flash' is enough these days to put developers off using it if their prime consideration is search engine rankings.
Well don't worry. You can include content and keywords in your forms and they will be included in Google searches. That is a great advance, not only for the search engines, but also for those that love the fabulous features that Flash forms can bring to your web pages and also all the other benefits that flash can provide you with.
If your form is right there on your website, with important keywords included in the body of the email, then it will be spidered and the content included in the algorithmic calculation of the relevance of your page to the search term used by the visitor arriving on your website. If you want the visitor to email you for more information, provide the Flash form right there with the keywords in the body, and all it takes is the address and possibly the URL of the sender.
Have you ever had to design such an email form and wondered where to start? Get out the textbook and read up about the scripts needed to design email applications? Call your graduate mate and ask for help with the difficult coding needed? Not with Flash. There are very simple Flash form applications that allow you to design superior emails with full auto-response thank you replies simply by dragging and dropping the form elements that you want included. You are saved the hassle of coding and scripting by the simplicity of modern Flash technology. You can use Adobe/Macromedia components or simple bit components to design your email application, and you can use it to generate a text or HTML formatted Flash form response email.
The choice of fonts and colors, and also of email styles will surprise you, and one of the great aspects of a Flash email application is that it can tie in with the other Flash components on your website. You can include built-in validation of email addresses and URLs, and can prompt the user if the email or URL syntax is invalid. You can expand the form's functionality by means of custom events: the full power of Flash is at your fingertips.
So, if you have never thought seriously of using Flash for any purpose on your website, then think again since the adverse aspects have now been resolved, and there is now a very large number of applications available to web designers, both professional and rank amateur, of which Flash email form design is only one. Flash forms are simple to add to any website, and provide a certain something that your visitors will remember, and keep returning to repeat the experience.
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Pete Nisbet
If you are interested in learning more about how Flash forms can be used in on your website, and on the use of Flash in general, then check out Walter's website http://www.flashloaded.com where you will find information on all aspects of Flash techno
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