Every business owner or a web designer will like to make the website more attractive and user friendly. The best method of making a website attractive is by using flash. There is a lot of craze on the flash-based websites in the recent years. The craze increase year after year as macromedia complies more features with the existing flash. This craze clearly shows that there will be more flash-based sites build.
There are many good advantages and merits of using Flash
The main advantage of Flash action script is that it creates lot of opportunities. Designers use Flash to add more interactive features on the website. The common feature of Flash that is used on websites is to build flash-based games. This interactivity makes the viewer to come back to the site repeatedly.
One of the main advantages of using Flash on the website is that you do not have to worry about the cross browser compatibility. The main advantage of Flash compared to others is that, whatever and however you position an element of Flash in the site, it will remain the same as long as it remains in the site. Most of the codes will change according to the browser capability.
Web designers use Flash to express or convey the expression or thought through animation. This is the best method to expressing the thoughts to animation. It does not mean that the animation will express your expression as it makes the site look wonderful attracting more users from time to time.
The main disadvantage of using flash enabled and flash-based sites is that the time it takes to download the web pages. Flash based web pages takes time to download and at the same time, it decreases the speed too. Even today, millions of users that uses dial up connection and downloading a multiple flash-based page will consume lot of time.