Rich Media

Engage your users through video, animation, games and other dynamic web page elements.

Rich media can add another dimension to a site. Web video for example, due to sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, has become great tool for communicating or entertaining on the web. Once video is made interactive or used within games or presentation elements, the user experience is enriched and expanded.

Games can be a great way of engaging your user, tied together with promotions or competitions, a whole other dimension can be added to the site. From a marketing perspective the use of games as a viral element to a campaign has been proven to be highly successful.

Markets such as education have taken advantage of rich media to deliver fantastic web-based distance teaching and instructional tools, which have dramatically improved learning experiences for students.

Rich media becomes even more interesting when tied together with social networks like Facebook and Twitter, as users can discuss and share easily, spreading the word or message far and wide.

At Deckchair we use many elements of rich media in our websites and we are happy to explore ways in which it can help your web projects.

Rich media includes:

  • Flash Video and MP3 audio
  • Games and interactive media
  • Social media and social network integration
  • Screen casts and instructional video
  • Embedded and downloadable content