So a couple of weeks ago, Jeremy Oehring, who has been interning here this fall, found a church website with the most awesomely bad flash intro either of us had ever seen. You MUST check it out here (BUT make sure your speakers aren't up too high - they might explode from sheer awesomeness!):
http://www.evangelcathedral.net/
My favorite part is that after the glory beams launch into the sky around the church building and we're done with the intro, then the rock guitar kicks into its plaintive wail, and the pastor welcomes us to their "PPresence" on the web (a "P" plosive sound is a cardinal sin in recording).
Yesterday I was trying to find this site again to show it to someone, and couldn't remember what it was called. I googled for "church site flash intro" and it was in the second result - this. Careful - if you spend too long in that post you may never return from the awfulness. But I noticed that several in that list were designed by the same designer as Evangel Cathedral's, including this one:
http://www.iccm-1.org/
Another gem on this site is found after the intro is over by clicking on the "Founder and CEO" link on the left. The guy has "over one hundred best-selling books"?!?!? REALLY? Over a hundred? Best-selling by whose definition? I'm pretty sure Stephen flippin' King doesn't even have that many best-sellers. So why haven't I heard of this guy?
If you want lots more of the same, check out the designer's portfolio here. Especially scroll to the second page and watch the K & K Mime site intro. It doesn't even have a "skip" button! It actually just has a "replay" button! How... why... uh... eh?
I wish I could come up with some pithy summing-up paragraph here that makes a clever commentary on something. I think the Flash awesomeness was just too much for me though.
