This is a portal site and a great example of how Flash can be incorporated together with back-end applications. On a lesser note, the animations and graphics could be spruced up a little to enchance the site, but it does feature nice clean looking widget like interface and a cool 3d rotating preload animation. Flash Usability Tip Use cookies to remember preferences Cookies can be a very helpful way to increase usability. A cookie is a small text file that a Web server can send to the user's browser. The browser stores this file for the server to request later.
Most Web servers use cookies to store preferences for a site, or the contents of shopping carts.
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