It’s well known that Flash makes sites look better. Isn’t it? Well only if you are stuck in the early part of 2000.
I would like to draw your attention to a few sites that use no Flash at all to get their desired effect across:
These are all great sites, some better looking than others, but it’s the technology I’m focusing on here.
Flash is good, but not when it’s used to make an entire site, or to replace content areas that don’t need to be Flash. Use it for videos. Use it for the analogue clock on bbc.co.uk, at least until SVG takes off and you don’t need to use Flash for that any more. Just please don’t use it as a replacement for real websites. Flash, as much as Adobe might say otherwise, still isn’t accessible, and most of the sites that I’ve seen built in Flash are a nightmare to maintain, and look horrendous.
Rant over.
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