Flash Makes Your Site Heavy - Why and where to Use It ?

Published: 12th December 2010
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Some Web designers thinks flash should not be used in their websites. They do have evidence to backup their opposition to flash usage, let us explain those in bulleted points in the following section.

REASONS:
* Page takes more time to load
* Visitor need to wait, until its loaded
* Not Search engine friendly
* Require more space

These reasons does sounds appealing and provide good proof that flash makes your websites heavy But you cannot neglect the importance and its role in world wide web. You cannot simply stop using them in your websites, when it comes to its beauty and eye catching animations[mostly website intros] you cannot think of going to another website until you view it all, am I right or wrong!

Some of Reasons why use Flash in your website
* User attraction
* Eye Catching animations
* Communicate your message in better way
* Audio - video embedding
* 3d objects embedding

Alright if we cannot use flash animations because they are heavy then where to use them?

* Music band websites
* Entertainment related websites
* Online Tutorials
* Online presentations
* CD-ROM presentations / catalogs
* Light banners in any type of website
* Studios websites web-design / software
* etc

So the net result is that audio visual format plays an important role in delivering the message to the end user in a better way. Everything does have positive and negative points, it really depends on your requirements where and how you use them.

You might have heard of the phrase "A picture worth a thousands words" well multimedia goes one step forward that this, it is more effective than a simple picture! Now-a-days, with the increase of internet speed more and more internet users are switching from traditional dial-ups to faster broadband and DSL links, we can consider light weight flash website will load without much delay.

I myself, a Flash web designer and loves doing flash jobs. you can visit my website http://www.pakcreations.com

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