To Preload or Not to Preload thats a good question

Written by Mike Truese.
Creative Director, Within Reach Concepts
http://www.flashmagazine.com/543.htm

This article discusses the importance of preloaders and the diferent methods available for creating one. The article says that one of the biggest criticisms of a flash based site is how long some of them take to load, but it also says it doesnt have to be this way it is quite easy to produce faster seeming site with a preloader. Writer Mike Truese explains that he likes to be involved in a process from stat to finish making sure that everything goes well.

While this article was not super informatitve i thought it was a good article to read because it showed readers that there are many different ways to use a preloader, it doesn't have to be just a little bar that moves across a screen. Most of us imagine a preloader as some type of graphic that represents a sites progress in loading but as this article explains it can also tell a story such as tell about the company while the site is loading or something like that. I never really thought about it that way and if i pulled one thing from this article i would have to say that it is that.