Flash: Pros and Cons

Using Flash: Pros and Cons

The animations created with Macromedia Flash are undoubtedly pleasing and strong impact on the visitor, expressing the maximum creativity and design of a website.The fact remains that a site based on Flash, is still to be avoided in many cases.

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We see why, following a list of factors which penalize this technology:

-- Indexing: Although lately search engines are making considerable efforts to index Flash sites constructed, the road ahead is still a long, and is now in danger of not being properly indexed.

-- Compatibility: although most visitors can correctly view flash movies, building a site based on it, we risk losing a percentage of potential users.

-- Usability: Often we are faced with sites flash little "usable", for example, unable to use the "back" browser, unless it was specifically inserted by the web designer.

Having said that, Flash is not avoided as an priority. The animations can be inserted in many contexts, creating logos, banners and many other movies, relying a web designer and professional experts.