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Introducing Adobe Flash 8 to Cool Blue's website
Flash Video as a Sales Tool
Cool Blue Interactive is staying ahead of its competitors through use of the latest tools and technologies. We recently introduced Flash 8 to our own site. The home page case study introductions, executed in Flash, have been upgraded, giving the page a fresher look.
CBI has also incorporated one of Flash�s newest and greatest capabilities, online video content. Flash 8 gave us the flexibility to design and build our own Flash player, retaining the look and feel of our refreshed site.
Flash 8 also gives us better ability to reach the widest possible audience. According to an NPD Online worldwide survey from April 2006, almost 98 percent of web users have the Flash player installed on their computers.
Because Flash is so widely used and accepted, it is the perfect way for your business to display video on the internet. It ensures that nearly all of your users will see your content without having to go through the steps of installing third-party software. This explains why giants like Google and MySpace stream video to their users through Flash.
Contact Cool Blue Interactive today to upgrade your site to the latest technology.
Flash® 8 is the industry's most advanced tool for creating interactive websites, digital experiences and mobile content. It enables our creative professionals to design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation for truly unique, engaging websites, presentations or mobile content.
Through the use of Flash, you can take advantage of the most widely deployed video platform on the Internet. Embedded video display through Flash became available with version 6. Over 90% of computers (NPD Online worldwide survey) have Flash 6 or better. The systems that find that they don't have the correct Flash Player can quickly and easily upgrade. The download is about 500 KB for Windows and users don't have to provide personal information in order to complete the process.
Some of Flash 8 advantages:
Updated video decoder (codec) - Flash Player 8 adds a new, far more advanced video codec. This codec provides superior video quality that is competitive with today's best video codecs at a much smaller file size.
Greater Visibility - Flash 8 uses a revolutionary new font rendering engine that provides clear, highest-quality font rendering, making small fonts look amazingly clear and improving readability.
Smaller File Size - Flash 8 has many more built-in features such as effects like drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, gradient bevel, and color adjust. Flash 8 offers run-time control over blend modes, allowing graphical effects to be composited for fully dynamic user interactivity. Because these are built-in features, creating effects will no longer require multiple images, reducing the size of your flash file, and making it load faster.