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Originally Posted by Callumpy
Well... Thanks for all your replies, i managed to get a designer to make the site for me, as i said its for my friends band so it wont be over done with flash, it will be a few things like buttons popping down when the site is entered and the logo will hopefully flash too.
As you said abyss, most people leave a flash site before its even loaded, well... most of the visitors will be fans of the band or people who want to find out about the band, so if they leave its up to them
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Wow what a brilliant way to encourage people to become fans.
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Originally Posted by Stuart C
Actually, Flash (or to give it it's original name, Futuresplash) was designed to make drawing on-screen comics easier. Then, they added the animation and eventually Macromedia bought and renamed it.
But, I too would go with the recommendation not to overuse Flash. It can achieve some amazing things (for instance, I once saw a website using a fairly fully functional simulation of the Mac OS 9 desktop for an interface), but a lot of people are irritated by it (it may look impressive the first time you see an effect, but how will it look the 2nd, 3rd, 4th time etc.?).
Also, if you ever get into commercial designing, you need to think of the Disability Discrimination Act. This requires that all aspects of a company (including any online presence) be accessible to the disabled. Disabled people may have trouble using a heavily flash based site. Those using Screen readers will have particular trouble (Flash has very bad support for screen readers), as I am sure Dilli will tell you..
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Indeed it is irritating, what really irritates me is where people embed a 'skip' button in a video and my reader doesn't read out the button so I know it's there.
Oh that and people who really REALLY just do not give a smeg about anyone else when designing a site.