There is a big debate whether or not you should add in animation to your website. There was even a time when splash pages or introduction pages of websites are mainly Flash animation. But with the popularity of SEO, most webmasters give more importance to website optimization and promotion rather than the outward look of their website, although we cannot deny the fact that a presentable and professional-looking web designs still count a lot in making your visitors stay on your site.

If you still wanted animated introduction page to your site, make sure that you add in a ‘skip’ button on that page. Most Flash pages may take some time to load. Keep in mind that most web surfers have short attention span and wanted to make good use of their time. They wanted to get information, and they want to get it fast.

What you can do to bring in more colors and a touch of art to your site is to add related images. This can put more life to your website. You can also use these images to improve your page ranking in search engines. You can add in keywords to ALT text for your images. Search engines, like Google and Yahoo, index websites’ pictures and even have image searches solely for pictures.