FLASH: Internet Dev Stds for Flash vs HTML

[Maria Koppi]

Need some feedback on what designers and developers

think about creating a corporate internet site purely

in Flash.  The end-users coming to this site will

basically be other corporate bodies of various sizes

(from 1 employee to 100's of employees).  It's an FYI

type site with less than 20 pages of content.  


Should an HTML version also be provided for those who

either do not have the Flash player; or for the

community that just doesn't want the Flash version to

appear every time?  If I design/develop just a Flash

index page, should I also develop an alternative HTML

page (thinking otherwise there will be NO navigation

to the remainder of the site otherwise)?


I'm thinking I would just hate to ward-off potential

clients/customers just because they do not have the

Flash player (regardless of what Macromedia's stats

show, MANY folks out there are running older PC's with

older browsers, and MANY do not have the saavy

experience of downloading and installing a

plug-in/player onto their PC, comfortably).


Not to mention Flash is not search-able by the major

search engines, unless every section is broken out

into separate movies, i.e., separate html pages

anyhow!


Thoughts, concerns, industry standards?



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