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Geek Culture / Flash or non flash site? or both to make it simple?

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sidewkdik
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 01:14
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Do you think having a Flash site is better than having a non flash? or even haing both toghter?

I do notice that only business like Music, Pepsi,Cocacola have only Flash, you reckon that you should have a flash site if your hardly going to update it?

I dunno, I'm just woundering what you peeps think?

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Manticore Night
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 01:29 Edited at: 12th Jun 2004 01:30
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Quote: "AVrIL LAVIGNe is the best!!!!"
If you mean HOT, then ya. But if you mean good music (I have removed this part because it's very mean, here's a smiley instead: )

And yeah, a flash site's better.

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Mattman
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 01:30
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TOO MUCH flash can hurt you though, so don't overdo it
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sidewkdik
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 02:16
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hmm....yea thats all true and yea I mean AVRILS HOT!!!

Er...yea so....I guess....full Flash here we come

I'm working on some flash site projects....some are pretty difficult, for example, how the hell do I do a fill out form and submit it lol

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Dgamer
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 03:08
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Flash sites are hard on the bandwidth though.

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Fallout
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 03:17
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I say no flash. If people want entertainment, they play a video game or watch a film - they don't load up a flash website. People want quick access and good navigation to the info/downloads/content they want. Bells and whistles are not important. You can spend days making a flash website, and most people will only slightly prefer it to a good looking HTML site.

I say, don't waste your time. Flash is only good for banners/ads/animations and showcase/media related websites. It shouldn't be used because you think it's cool. It's a tool and should be used when necessary, in my opinion.

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Zenincanin 14
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 03:17
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yeah I like Avril.

*Pictures being with Avril* LOL!

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1tg46
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 03:36
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Flash sites also take quite a bit of time to load. Just look at harrypotter.com that place is all flash and with a dial-up modem that takes at least 5-10 minutes to load.

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the_winch
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 04:15
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How well do search engines work with flash?
Bit of a pain if you lose a lot of hits from search engines when you could have made a similar site without flash.

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Dgamer
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 04:22
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He still could use metatags or he could make a separate page done in HTML.

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indi
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 04:38
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flash for what its worth actually delivers faster content for les bandwidth.

ITs usually the developers skill & time to create the site which makes it slow

A combination flash site with html i made was this one
www.crighton.com.au

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sidewkdik
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 16:39
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Thanks guys for the tips, your brill!!!! A++++++++++

AVrIL LAVIGNe is the best!!!!
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Jess T
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Posted: 12th Jun 2004 16:54 Edited at: 12th Jun 2004 16:58
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Quote: "TOO MUCH flash can hurt you though, so don't overdo it "


Not true.

To much crap onscreen at a time can hurt you, but lot's of actual Flash presentations can't hurt.

I always use the KISS principal ( Keep It Simple, Stupid ).

It works amazingly well.

Oh, and Flash's compression is extremely good. As long as you use Vector graphics, and not Raster ( Bitmap ) then you should have a nice SMALL resulting file size.

I like flash quite alot. IMHO

Jess.


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David T
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Posted: 13th Jun 2004 00:56
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No flash for me, except for a special use like some clever ticker that's needed.

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