People hate waiting.  I do; don’t you?  If you do happen to absolutely,positively despise waiting, don’t tell a web designer.  They know we hate to wait, and they hate hearing this because, let’s be honest, not many websites have entertaining loading effects.  Luckily, it’s easy to ask your web designer to add a little something special to that boring old loading bar!  This may sound silly at first, adding pizazz to something as useless as a loading screen.  However, for the little amount of time it takes to add a fun waiting feature, your guests quite will be pleased!

Besides, you wouldn’t want your potential customers to get bored while waiting and move to a faster site.  That is a major no-no!

Without further ado, below are our most entertaining (and still somewhat professional) loading effects!

Spinning Loading

With bold red words written ‘Loading’ in it, this snippet is a creative way of letting your viewers wait.  It is clean-looking and relatively easy to use.

Planets

It’s both peculiar and cool to see these planets dancing.  This effect could be very good for websites which adapts a cutey-patootsy layout.

Sinister Loadscreen

Yes, this loading effect seems sinister and dark.  But it’s a good effect to intrigue your readers by shrouding your website with some sort of cryptic and evil, right?

Yet Another Loading Animation

This loading animation is simple and yet full of movement.  You’ll love the rhythm of its motion.  Perfect for music-oriented websites!

Spin.js

Spin.js will make your world and imagination spin! Using sliders, you can easily customize how you want your loadscreen to be. Perfect for Mac and Windows 8 lovers.

Facebook-ish Loading Animation

If you want your website to look like Facebook, this loading effect will be a great help.  It adapts the Facebook load effect that shows up when you load photos.

Flickr Style

Here’s one for the Flickr lovers!  You’ll love to put this in your website because the effect looking simple and edgy.  Change up the colors to match your websites vibe!

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With the effects you just saw, waiting could never be as bad as web designers think it to be.  In fact, your viewers will find it otherwise.  They will love your website because even at the moments where they have to wait, they could readily feel the creative juice you just gave in for your beloved website.