Flash or not to use

Flash or not to use Out there in the WWW there are thousands of pages with flash for their needs. But most sites are not in this list. Here is a summary of the facts on how to use Flash on your website and after that, you who have to decide to use or not. There are some facts about Macromedia Flash technology: First Note: The sites are much more pleasant and more professional with the flash animation on their pages. Users of some sites to visit, to see only Flash Intros, if some original manner.The Second Note: Flash-source scripts can not be stolen as opposed to Java script or HTML. Flash files are there in "two" pieces: files with extension. Fla extension and are the true source. Swf files are compiled versions of these files. In your browser, you can solo. Swf files.The Third Note: Flash animation files for download are slow and require plug-in Flash Player. Regular static graphic requires less time to download. Within a few years when the problem of dial-up can be resolved and fast DSL connections are cheap and available to all this problem does not seem so bad, but so far we have this, since not all users are impatient to wait until a minute or two to see your flash intro. This is one of the most important reason is not popular flash on the large corporate sites (Yahoo, for example, show flash ads on their pages) The Fourth Note: Not all browsers with Flash Player. The old versions of MS Explorer and Netscape Navigator can not display Flash movies. However, there is a solution: the use of Java Script for the compatibility of the browser and the static image, if the player is not available for the browser. Now, there are still some issuers with browsers, Java scripts do not understand, but there are some people who have these browsers today? But there are some? And it is necessary that in the fifth mind.The Note: As you may have made suggestions on our web site flash header. Why? The reason was simple, and this is the fact number five: Flash movies are particularly Redeem browser folder and the second time you log in you must not wait. Flash movie is the cache folder. Image files are also cached in the browser and can be reused when the file name and path for the images of the same. But we chose to flash various technical reasons in relation to our needs. So, we are on our page. See how it seems in contradiction with the third fact? :-) The problem is that it requires a lot of time to download, but only for the first time! If we are waiting for the visitors, then you will benefit from the flash, because they are always there and should not be loaded every time you go to other sixth page.The Note: Search engines do not like Flash sites, because is almost impossible to scan them. You can not crawl links on your web page and can not index your website if it is in Flash. In HTML you can use Flash only where it is possible to flash object.As has several advantages and disadvantages. No matter what you think of Flash, but is the future of the Inteet. If you're not, and stay away, this moing sorry you did. Just think the use of Flash on your website. Remember! Be reasonable in design and use of flash and okAbout the author: Oleg Lazarenko Production Manager Metamorphosis Web Design Studio? Flash Templates and Web Templates