Mark Spenser
Posts: 66

Whenever you visit any Flash based website, you will find that the Flash website do have animated elements, perhaps music and sound effects. Flash permits for the creation of websites with video, graphics, sound, music and much more. Most of us haven’t seen websites with animation and most likely didn't feature music or sound effects. You may also have seen regular websites that have some animated elements on them. So, websites can be either composed entirely of "Flash", or they can merely include some "Flash" elements such as animated headers. Some websites of course don't have any "Flash" elements at all.

Let's take a look at what the advantages and disadvantages of "Flash" website content is all about.

Flash content can look grand: a good designer can create an eye-catching, professional website in Flash – For example a User recently visited a website for an interior design firm. After being treated with fancy logo sequence, he found himself in a house, with unremarkable background music playing on the website. User clicked on a doorway of the house of the website and after a brief loading sequence, he was treated to a 3d panoramic video clip of the room, with narration about what interior design choices had been made for this particular room. This website not only appeals the User but almost all Users who visit this website, with both the visual and audio senses. User found that website had a high degree of communicating. User found this website professional and this impression rubbed off on the company who owned the website.

Users find this particular Flash website most successful! However, "Flash" isn't great, and here's why. Search Engines don't really like "Flash" websites as much as they like plain old fashioned "text and pictures" ones. How search engine will know that this website is about interior design? It doesn't. Search engine giant Google is very skillful at reading text. If search engines were to visit a website of ‘text’ or ‘content’ about Interior Design, it would scan the website, and soon figure out what the website is all about. Accordingly, it would be able to provide up this website in its results when people searched for "interior design". A human being might prefer the "Flash" version of this website, but the Flash website leaves search engines such as Google puzzled. Google can't really watch Flash videos or listen to narration. How is it supposed to figure out what the website is all about? There are also other disadvantages of flash website design. They can be burdensome and very slow; all users will not have high speed internet connection to view Flash websites.

Molly O'neal
Posts: 3

Thank you! That is helpful

Jake Mcgreg
Posts: 20

I'm glad you enumerated the advantage as well. It's good to learn the good things and not-so-good things about Flash at the same time.