Flash Templates

On a recent trip to Virginia, I was talking to a young man who proudly showed me his video company's web site. It was a spiffy site made by a very high-in-demand web designer he knew. "Tom" said this designer often used Flash templates in creating web sites. I'm not sure Tom knew it, but I'm fairly certain his site was made from a template as well. As long as Tom was happy with his site, there was no reason for me to point it out. When I got back to my office I looked up "flash templates" on Google. There were quite a few companies offering these templates, most of them offshore, from India or Singapore. I finally settled on a company recommended by Adobe: Oh My Flash. (ohmyflash.com), which prices Flash components inexpensively at around $30-$35 each.

Since then, I've used Flash navigation components for several websites. If you know a bit of Flash, but not up to creating it from scratch, then this is a good way to go. You can provide some spiffiness at good value for your clients. Other template sites I've bookmarked for future reference are: Flash Components, Template Tuning, Templates 247 and Templates Factory.