Flash Intro

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A piece of animated content displayed at the beginning of a presentation, such as a web site, that is specifically prepared using Adobe Flash. The main content is preparing to load in the background, while the animated content is displayed in the foreground.

This provides the user with some free time, which is intended to captivate the user's attention so that it does not stray away from the site. There is a huge number of web site builders who create Flash Intro in their sites.

However such pages are now considered old hat amongst the web design community and the intros are regarded as a waste of the most important page of a website, the home page, and also hinder Search Engine Optimisation.