The use of flash in websites has been around for over a decade and is increasing with each year. These websites are entertaining, visually appealing, and much more user interactive than the typical web site you run across. Programmers are continually asked to build these types of websites and deciding to learn how to do so yourself will quickly grow your bank account. The issue for most site owners is whether or not flash is something that will add to or detract from their particular web site or should they stay with their old and outdated site concepts. This article will go over the advantages and disadvantages of using flash on your site so that you can decide the answer to this question yourself.
We’ll go over the disadvantages first for those that like to hear the “bad new” first. The main drawback of flash sites are that they can be resource intensive. Dial up connections couldn’t easily access resource intensive flash based web sites. Also web site host providers did not always offer enough additional bandwidth and expanding bandwidth can raise the price of web hosting.
Another draw back is that many people who decide to use flash tend to create long flash introductions that go on forever. These sites tend to lose people who may have decided to stick around and read the content or buy the product, but were too impatient to watch the long flash introduction. The visitors that did not want to watch may have wanted to make a quick purchase.
One key advantage of flash is that it usually extends the visitors time spent on your website and increases their chances of making a purchase. These sites are much more interactive and a visitor that was only looking for quick information may become so impressed that he or she sticks around and is eventually persuaded to buy something.
It is rare, but you can even build flash sites for free. If you go to a nice site called http://www.wix.com, you’ll be able to build your own amazing flash website for free. I don’t know too many people that wouldn’t want to increase the prestige of their web site at no additional cost to them.
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