Questions for Web-Designers / Web Developers / Flash gurus etc.

K

Kyriakos

New Member
Hi, I am new to this community, and I hope you can help me with some research I am conducting...

I am a second year Graphic Design student in the UK, and I am working on a module titled "Research in the Commercial World", in which I must research a specific area of commercial practice.

My main area of focus is Web-Design, and how in recent years flash has shifted from being a secondary element in a website to one of the main ingredients of a successful site, possibly sometimes the sole ingredient...

I have put together three research questions that I would be grateful if as many of you could answer for me. The answers you provide me with will help me form an opinion on the matter, so I can then feed-back my findings and conclusions to my tutors.

The three questions are:

1. What decision making leads you to using flash in your websites?

2. Does it depend on the client to decide if they want you to use flash?
Or is it up to you?

3. Once you have decided to use flash within one of your websites, how do
you judge if it should be completely done in flash or a mix of
html/flash?

Thank you all in advance...
 
conor

conor

New Member
I personally don't ever use flash in any of my sites for more than a stylish banner, so i can't really help you other than to tell you that you need great knowledge of flash (ActionScript) to make an entire site out of it. In my opinion a great dynamic, flexible, "moving" site can be achieved with a combination of JavaScript and PHP, and sometimes maybe a small bit of flash. I don't really like it when people use to much flash....
 
P

pingeyeg

New Member
1. I normally use flash if I know that it would really jazz up the site. If the site is stricly informational for business people then chances are I wouldn't use it, but if it is for say a restaurant or a photographer, then I would use it.

2. Normally it does depend on the client because it takes more time to do this, but if the client is not willing to pay for it, then obviously they get what they pay for.

3. I would never use flash for the entire site unless it really called for it due to SEO purposes.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top