What are the advantages and disadvantages of Flash?
Flash files are a great way to include lots of visual content without taking up much room. If your business lends itself to “taking a tour,” a Flash presentation is ideal. If your business needs to “set a mood” or showcase many aspects of your service or product, then a Flash file with changing images on the top page might be a good idea. In these cases, the Flash file is embedded in the .html code, much like a static image. But it does not comprise the entire page. You still have regular .html titles, headings, meta-tags, etc. surrounding the Flash image. We never recommend building an entire site in Flash for these reasons: • Depending on how many images you intend to use and how large those images are, Flash files can get big and take a long time to download. How often have you gone to a Web site and seen the ubiquitous “loading…” symbol and waited and waited just to get to see the top page of a site? When all the pages of a Web site are compacted into one Flash file you can reall