When to use Flash in Webdesign
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Many specialists and designers don’t recommend very much the use of Flash in webdesign.
It is recommended a analysis of the company’s profile according to its needs in showing its products or services online. Flash animations should never heavily feature on the logo or contact information witout considering the aesthetics and proposed design. If this happens, the company could suffer the consequences:
- Be devalued on online market;
- A visual pollution could occur as the visitor won’t know where to focus his eyes if there are three or more animations on the main page;
- The company is in risk of not having its content indexed by search engines, making it difficult for possible clients to find the site;
- The site can get heavy and slow, sending visitores away even before the site finishes loading.
The blog of the magazine Pequenas Empresas Grandes Negócios (Small companies, Great business) published a list of Flash sites not very pleasants.
When to use Flash
Flash is a powerful tool and can be very useful to add new features in the design. The best example we can pick of the usage of Flash tecnology is in YouTube. In the most famous video site on the web, Flash is always used in a discret way only for the videos. Without Flash, YouTube wouldn’t be possible.
If you plan to build a site whose content is focused on videos, such as cinema news, or that has many image galleries, Flash could be an interesting sollution. However, remember to know what kind of public you pretend to reach by filtering since from which media they will use to get to your site to the connection speed they have.
In The Good Flash Site you can find articles about good and bad usages of Flash in Webdesign
