Flash or No Flash

The Drawbacks of Flash range from browser incompatibility to poor search engine optimization. The Draw to Flash is obvious, cool transition effects. I love using flash in my projects because of it's immediate gratification. You do all the work, and you get something at everyone ooos and aaaahs over. However, sometimes flash doesn't play right, or clients can't figure out how to use the flash features that you so painstakingly programmed. I feel that flash sites make the internet a more interesting place to work. It gives designers yet another tool to express their creative side in the world of web programming. If you would like to have flash in your site keep in mind that search engines can't read flash content, so you are loosing out on lots of the keyword placement that will get your site ranked on the major search engines.