How We Chose Seattle Flash Website Design Firms
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Are you wondering what criteria we used in selecting the “top 10″ Seattle Flash website design companies? We freely declare that the “top 10″ of anything is a subjective value judgment. However, if you approve of our selection criteria and hold similar values, then you will find this list may streamline your search for a professional Flash website designer who fits your needs. And that’s our goal.
Our Background and Perspective
Our reviewers have diverse technical and design backgrounds. We combine years of experience in a variety of industries: website and graphic design, Internet marketing, software GUI design, interactive media, technical writing, small business development, search engine optimization (SEO), and corporate IT. Besides working hands-on in the trenches in these areas, we have taught these principles in the classroom and corporate world and published both print and electronic curriculum and articles on the same.
All together, we review a web design company for talent, skill, presentation, experience, professionalism, happiness of clients and participation in the industry community.
Our Rating System
The Seattle Flash design companies we’ve profiled here are rated on a 5-star system, as follows:
= minimum rank to qualify for this directory; good skills with some Flash experience
= strong in most areas considered; excellent design and good Flash elements
= portfolio emphasizes Flash design and samples are highly professional; top notch
The Initial Search for Professional Flash Website Designers in Seattle
We chose to search for Seattle Flash Website Designers the same way that you probably reached our website: by using online search engines, primarily Google. Next, we scoured several prominent online directories for other strong Adobe Flash design companies that might be weak in SEO skills and therefore wouldn’t show up in the first few pages of the search engines.
The Ongoing Search for Seattle Flash Design Companies
We believe there are more top notch Flash design firms in the Seattle area waiting to be discovered. Our long-term plans include a continued cycle of review and additions to this guide. However, while it may seem logical to try to limit the guide to only 5-star Flash work, we recognize that business needs vary, and some might find a 3-star Flash designer exactly what they need. So for now, we are committed to offering a variety of skill combinations in this guide.
The Website Design Company Websites
A professional web site design company’s website offers an instant impression to the viewer about their skills, design preferences and areas of expertise. In reviewing websites of Seattle web site designers, we decided that sites must have a good, clean look and an easy way to access their portfolio and contact information to qualify for our interest.
The Studio Portfolios
Nothing speaks in the design world like samples of actual work. It’s a fact of life that design studios with great skills may get overlooked if their portfolio doesn’t do them justice. So we placed heavy emphasis on the quality and number of the Adobe Flash design projects in the portfolios of the Seattle web site design firms we found.
We asked ourselves questions like, “What level of quality is this? Would we see this Flash effect on prime time TV, or in an Adobe Flash community college class?” We studied whether Flash elements loaded quickly, whether they offered options to skip Flash intros, whether they had an HTML version of the site available, and other good practices of Flash website design. All these elements, and more, went into our consideration of Seattle Flash design companies.
The Seattle Flash Website Design Companies
Finally, to qualify for our attention, a Seattle Flash website design studio needed to have an established history.
While it is a plus to have more than one person in the company, it isn’t required for every kind of project, so we included single person companies. Many freelance individuals in graphic and web design are highly skilled and reliable these days. However, many are not. Quite important to us was a sense of history, implying reliability and integrity. It is important to have the security of knowing this person or company has been around for a while, has worked with many other companies, and will be around to follow through on a project or become a regular contractor, if needed.
We looked over the list of clients for each company and reviewed their client testimonials. We did call several companies for information not included on their websites, especially things related to their experience, history and areas of expertise. We decided to leave it up to you to call a given company to check their references, as such things can change over time.
Why Not Include More Information About the Flash Design Companies?
We considered including a detailed review, screenshots of each company’s website, phone numbers and email addresses and other details in the profiles of each company, but felt it was better to link directly to the company’s web site for those details. Such things may change without notice, and we want this resource to be valuable for a long time to come. The value we offer is in giving you several strong companies to start with, weeding out the weaklings so you can go straight to contacting them for a quote or calling their references.
Other Considerations
If you have other considerations that are important to your own selection process that you think would significantly impact the type of companies profiles on our list, feel free to contact us with your thoughts.
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