Comments on: Why Flash-based Websites are Bad

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:25:21 +0000

Excellent post – you have very succinctly managed to communicate why the use of flash should be restricted to enhancing some elements on the page, rather than the delivery of the entire website.

I honestly think that Flash causes more hassle than it does to enhance the web, in general terms (and this comes from someone who played heavily with flash back in the day!).

Any developer/designer worth their salt would help explain the benefits of being in HTML and CSS with a sprinkling of JQuery goodness for added flavour. Yeah Flash has it’s purpose, but anyone still delivering websites totally driven by Flash are showing their age and ignorance.

Wake up and smell the coffee

By: tEkk3 » Ideas, Innovation, Success » New Website Basics

tEkk3 » Ideas, Innovation, Success » New Website Basics — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 20:31:41 +0000

[...] Flash is used for video content on sites like Youtube and Vimeo. In the past developers used it to create entire websites, but the problem with this is that it doesn’t give search engines anything to search for. It is a single file. We won’t get into that in depth, but for the sake of simplicity we recommend that Flash only be used for video or educational material that doesn’t need to be search engine friendly. You can learn more about why Flash is inappropriate for use on an entire site here. [...]

By: annnno

annnno — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:09:33 +0000

the way i see it is flash just plain useless beyond the video playback / audio playback. But now HTML 5 & jquery allow to eliminate flash even for the video playback. For those who want swooshy effects for menus etc, js is capable of doing all that without having users to see the annoying get flash player plugin

By: Naveen P Suthar

Naveen P Suthar — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:39:26 +0000

Nice article. Flash sucks the end user alot. It is good for presentations, but not good for the web.
When your entire site is on the Flash the search spiders doesn’t understand what your site is all about, In other words it is not good for SEO.
Using a flash object in website is ok which can’t be done by the other option… but if you are using a flash object for a picture library or gallery for for sliding the images… Try to use JQuery…. That’s a better option.
All in short as a developer I don’t like flash for websites at all.

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By: Our jQuery Love Child – Mint Innovation » Absolute Advantage : Creative Web Solutions

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:12:04 +0000

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By: Samuel Bronson

Samuel Bronson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:51:18 +0000

Yeah, there’s a reason newgrounds.com isn’t written in Flash…

By: Jim@Altech

Jim@Altech — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:20:48 +0000

Using flash elements is ok – it’s when your entire home page is one big flash file that you run into problems with the search engines

By: Our jQuery love child – Mint Innovation « Absolute Banter

Our jQuery love child – Mint Innovation « Absolute Banter — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:13:10 +0000

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By: kral oyun

kral oyun — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:49:35 +0000

One thing i know for sure if sites load slow people just leave. They also hate sites with ads that slow site down.

You want site to load fast even if they use dial up instead of dsl so you get people to see what site has to offer. It is so hard getting people to your site so you might as well make sure they stay long enough to see it.