Article Submitted by Quadra Web Design LA
Flash-based websites – it’s very popular in web design circles. Yet despite the fact that there are more and more flash websites on the internet today, the truth is that this technology is not suited to every website.
What one must keep in mind is that in some cases, Flash adds to the website and in others, can take away from it. And so, here are 3 reasons why flash-based sites are actually good:
#1: Interactivity
If there’s anything that Flash’s Actionscript does, it is to open a plethora of options for programmers. Whether this is interactive feedback forms to Flash-based videogames, it can always have visitors coming back for more.
#2: No need for large movie files
Efficiency is what Flash promises as opposed to the days when people needed to upload large movie files. Since Flash is vector-based, it tends to not take up as much space as required with movie files that are not necessarily as lightweight as Flash animation. As most people might know, using Flash in this instance results in the message being delivered in a creative manner with a fraction of the file size.
#3: Cross-browser compatibility
Cross-browser compatibility used to be a point of contention without Flash since programmers used to worry about whether CSS code appears differently in various web browsers or not. In using Flash, all the programmers need to bother about is the fact that the user should have installed the Flash player or not – and most users do! As most website designers would know, placing the site elements in Flash only depends on the fact that users should have installed Flash player.
