Flash intros are dead and dying
Google Blogoscoped has a screen shot of a new Google feature that allows users to skip flash intro pages. This is cool because flash intro pages are useless time wasting pieces of crap.
The point of an intro page is to mesmerize website visitors with a flashy cover page so they become impressed with your website and your business. This makes little sense to me because regardless of how fancy your intro page may be, the underlying website still either has what the user wants or it does not. If a website is a piece of crap, it is still a piece of crap with an intro page.
Give users the information they are looking for. There is no need to waste someone’s time when they have given you the opportunity to inform, market and sell them something on your website.
