3 Flash Myths – why Flash website development is good
There are so many negative connotations attached to Flash and there are many stigmas that still haunt this AWESOME development tool! These outdated myths seem to be the result of old Flash ‘bugs’ and limitations that are no longer true. Flash has been in the market now for more than 10 years and has a penetration of more than 98%. Today the top three common Flash myths and the true Flash FACTS will be explained. So you will soon see that Flash IS worth your investment.
Flash Myth # 1: A lot of people claim that Flash animation and Flash websites take too long to load
FACT: This real issue is related more specifically to bad development practice, rather than Flash facts. If the developer or website designer building your website decides to put everything into one movie, then site will load extremely slowly. Good developers will create a custom Flash container into which they can load different movies on demand. Good Flash designs will help to reduce the load time from seconds to milliseconds. In fact, some Flash websites will actually load faster than HTML or Joomla websites. Flash websites do not always equal slow loading websites.
Flash Myth # 2: Flash websites are hard for search engines to find and therefore rank more lowly and have bad SEO (search engine optimization)
FACT: For the many SEO ‘engineers’ who have little to no experience in Flash website optimization or in creating effective Flash designs, this myth might stand pretty true! You need to bear in mind that there are a lot of java scripts available that will allow for ‘website indexing’. Dedicated custom Flash SEO companies will have all of the necessary tools and knowledge to successfully optimize your Flash website! This means that Google and Yahoo can then easily index the entire website! The most successful custom SEO Flash agencies (like Solution416) are continually achieving the best rankings on Google, Yahoo, and Ping! Sometimes they can even achieve double listings per page! Can you see how important this is now?
Flash Myth # 3 – Flash development is very expensive and the extra cost is not justified, because it rarely focuses on the needs of the site visitor
FACT: If you build a custom Flash website from scratch (that is, without using a template), you will find that most of the price will be calculated on the Flash designs or ‘customization’ and the actual intellectual copyright of your website! If you can understand that you are paying to get a 1 of a kind, personalized website design or Flash animation, then you will realize that the Flash development really becomes inexpensive when you think about it!
If you decide that you don’t have that sort of money to spend on your website, there are cheaper alternatives. You could use a Flash template. These are usually very cheap and pretty easy to come by. You just need to be a bit careful, because if your website does not grab the attention of the visitor (your potential customer!), or it does not have good Flash animation, and does not make it simple to convert them from a visitor to YOUR client, then it will most likely be a design issue, rather than a Flash issue. So what do you do about that? Well, some people believe that at that point you need to hire a new designer, not change the technology!
