Flash is a very fascinating innovation of technology that could add websites interactivity and flashy graphics. If you want to learn how to use flash, know that this can be very difficult and time consuming in order to produce a very good animation.
Flash has been a popular website design technology for quite awhile now, because of its ability to make a high quality light weight animations, images and layouts. Now, let’s try to know the advantages and disadvantages of creating a flash-based website.
Advantage:
Main thing that is very good about flash-based website is the ability of interactivity as it makes the website pages perceived as vivid and alive. Flash enable a website to use animated menus, headers and flash games. If a visitor will visit your website be assured that the visitor will speak highly of your website because of its dynamic pages. A browser compatibility issue in your website is not a concern in flash, because flash files that are in your website can be viewed for as long as there is a flash player. The message you want the visitors to read will be effectively executed due to animation and interactive features of flash.
Disadvantage:
If you have flash movies of course the main requirement for you to view it is a flash player. And so if the visitor has no flash player installed before he visit your flash-based website be sure that inconveniences will happen and most visitors will not go into the trouble of downloading flash player just for your website. If you’re the owner, of course you redirect your visitors that does not have flash player installed into a download page. Also if your website is presented in flash, you can expect that most search engines will not be able to index it. What it means is that, your website will not have a higher ranking which gives you a lesser traffic. Last disadvantage that concerns flash-based website is the loading time. Flash related contents loads longer compared to the non flash content so the visitors of your site will have to wait longer, longer waiting lessens the patience of the visitors as a result they will leave your website before it even started loading.
Here is a bit of advice, use flash within your website when it only needs a motion and live action. Do not use flash excessively or else it will cause you your traffic.
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