subject: The Merits & Demerits of Flash Website Design [print this page] The Merits & Demerits of Flash Website Design
Since the arrival of Flash, there has been mixed feelings amongst users and critics alike. Initially, it was a great welcome with its ability to deliver rich and interactive designs that included animation, videos and games as well. This was quite a major attraction for website visitors and clients of design houses who could not notice the potential in Flash as closely as the designers could. However, it didn't take longer for them to realize the immense potential of Flash. Now both the advantages and disadvantages of Flash dawned not only on Flash CS3 designers (wielders of the presently popular version) but everyone else as well. Even though you will come across lots of websites with animated intros to their company, which are done through Flash, there still are a few things that qualify as its disadvantages.
Today, Flash hardly faces any major challenge or competition in its path of being chosen as the most widely used design program. But that sure cannot undermine the fact that it isn't without any limitations. The limitations lie in its tools/features and in its capacity, since much more is expected out of this program. Now those who opt for Flash site design must know that there are certain restrictions from the SEO point of view that make Flash a big no-no. Unless it is some exclusively game oriented website that lets visitors play and download Flash games, there really is no viable reason for its implementation. The general idea of using Flash designs and animation in a website is to make it more appealing to the visitors.
If you have a website that you have specifically created to do business and mean to implement SEO services for its promotion then Flash can actually come in the way of your pages getting indexed for search engines. Moreover, doing business online means having a big enough website. Adding Flash designs to it can only make it slower and unimpressive to the clients who would look for fast service. In such a case, Flash website design can be nothing but disadvantageous instead of bringing in more customers to your website.
