Flash - Bad Idea?

[ddzc]

Hi all,

I was going to build an all flash site here but do you believe this will cause less visitors/revenue due to compatibility issues? I was going to change my mind and do it all html for faster response times and higher traffic ratio b/c they wont have to install flash. I'll be selling services on the site and it will be towards IT/tech savvy people (Highly doubt any of them will be running 56k). I'm more worried about the indexing.

What are your thoughts?

 

[Phoebe_]

Flash is nice coz it gives drama to the site.. but it won't do good in SE.

 

[NetWin]

Xavier, i had a look at your site - just a bit of feedback - it took around 10 secs (my connection is 2 meg) to load.

 

[chrispalko]

Personally, I advise all my clients against Flash (yet, so many think it's the coolest thing ever). I find it a bit annoying in headers (unless it's a short or subtle animation), but I've seen some really nice navigations using Flash.

Entire sites using flash, I don't even waste my time on. I think flash sites are good for showing your graphic design capabilities, but not so much web design.

Either way, if you decide to go entirely flash, try not to make it take too long to download or too overbearing with animations.

 

[digitalmoney]

I wouldn't do an all flash site for several reasons:

- Takes a while to load (depending...)

- It's to busy - make your site clean and simple

- Not search engine friendly

- Takes longer time to develop

Your website should have 1 purpose and 1 purpose only. Not to entertain, not to look nice, but to simply make you money.

 

[priyakochin]

In seo concept flash is not recommended.

 

[labrocca]

Flash is best imho for an ads media. Banners that are flash look great. However sites using it for their navigation suck and I normally bypass them as annoying. The worst is that every page load most of them redo their animation.