Too much animation?

[st_hart]

Yes, I agree with that. To make it worse, some websites even add audio content on their web pages, letting us waiting longer to load their web pages. Not to mention that I don't like the music they play LOL. Well, I prefer websites with rich text based content. Some webmasters did advise us to design simple web pages. That's more search engine friendly. Search engines cannot crawl graphical or animated content.

[iain]

Originally Posted by scottelkin

Here is the main point: test, test and test. Do a simple A/B split test where you direct 50% of your traffic to a page w/ no animation.

If stats go up, ditch the animation. In some markets, animation is preferred.

Yes, I would like to say that some areas have need for animation to market to specific groups of people etc, but generally speaking people want a clean, fast, efficient and interactive environment on the web now. Not clunky animations for the most part. At least that is how it comes across to me

[ezonyx]

I agree, myspace pages like a bad acid trip, most of them, and I can't read text due to crazy backgrounds.

Too much animation is bad, it distracts a visitor from the content. Flash continues loops are the same thing. Also intro pages will cut off many visitors.

[teddy35chmabers]

Yes, too much animation do make your website ugly.