aaaarrrgghhh! Maybe you could get away with it if you had some direct satellite link to the bandwidth Gods…but please flashy people - have you never tried to surf the net in South Africa and had to wait 5 minutes for a site to open because it’s all flash-based? I beg you to do some more research in your chosen field. No-one’s denying that flash elements on a website look great and are super useful and there are some brilliantly designed flash websites that actually work and load quickly. You good developers are exempt from my rant! It’s the old school flash sites that show you the loading bar percentage process that are my particular gripe. It’s a fact. Our bandwidth speed and consistency in South Africa is a problem. A site that takes ages to load because of shoddy development work…well you can certainly count me out and tab me up with your other frustrated potential clients.
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I think a combination of flash and xhtml would be the best option…
Flash can easily be abused, check out this amazing site, it really is one of the best I have ever seen (Headphones!)
http://www.zombo.com
Flash is so last year! It’s not interactive, you can’t leave this kind of comment (at least I don’t think you can) and, as you say, it’s f a a a r t o o s l o w.
And if clients think they need bells and whistles to sell their products - then maybe their products are kind of lacking in bells and whistles of their own.
Been enjoying Mandy’s column on OnlineTravelFocus - keep ‘em coming!
I took your advice and clicked on zombo.com - and a minute later I was still listening to a vapid voice saying “welcome to xombocom, this is zombocom, welcome to zombocom’ - and watching a whole lot of circles go round and round in, well, circles.
Then I got bored waiting for it to load.
I still don’t know what zombocom is, what it’s selling or whether it’s something for me.
If the blimmin thing had just loaded and told me whether it was worth my while snooping around, I might not have had the time to come back here and moan.
No - me, I don’t like flash sites.
At least I know I am not the only one who goes grrr when faced with too-long-to-load flash sites!
Thanks Michael…glad the Online Travel Focus blurbs are vaguely interesting - one never knows with cyber writing whether its in the right tone for the audience because the audience is so vast and varied!