Top Reasons Not To Go Flash With Your Site

Flash is a cool thing for people that first time they see it but after that it can get very annoying which is why a lot of people just tend to scrap it now. Once this initial “wow” factor has gone through you will start to see users dropping off like flies and this is because there are many problems when it comes to using flash.

99.9% of the time flash will give you very poor usability disease.

There are some good designs of flash and it has to be said that when it is done right it looks simply fantastic but most of the time they are just awful websites.

Why is it that flash will push people out?

Encourages Design Abuse

Breaks Fundamental Interaction Principles

Directs Attention For The Site’s Value

A huge mistske that people tend to make when they are thinking of having their site designed is that they seem to think flash is going to do their site some huge favours. Of course it will if it is a decent looking bit of flash but the chances are you are not going to have the budget to have a great lookign flash site built.

Of ocurse one of the other problems is time, it takes a long time to design a site like this. It will take a very long time to get the animation together and this is simply for the home page, imagine if you wanted the entire site to be flash?

There is nothing wrong with having a small bit of flash on your site; in fact I would really recommend having a small amount on the site because it does look pretty cool.

If you are struggling to realise just how you want your site designed then I suggest getting a decent web design team involved.

Of course if you have a site and it isn’t doing well you could bring in the SEO team.