RE: FLASH: Re: industry standard, was Site Check.

[I am the Walrus]

> Most of them think of plugin as a very nasty word.

> Where do the rest of you draw the line?

>


This is an issue that I've been dealing with as well.  Recently I was asked

to develop a Flash site for a company I'm consulting.  When the Project

Manager heard the words "plug-in" he abruptly removed me from the project

and decided that they would do it in house using GIF animations & java

menus.  They spent 2 weeks solid with 5 guys working on it all day to get to

a beta stage for the client.  The night before the beta was due, I took a

screen shot of what they had created home and threw together a Flash version

of their site in about 5 hours - with music, sound effects, animations etc.

The next day I brought it in and showed them a version of their site that

blew the java version away, cost 1/4 as much to build, and took up under

100k of space.


Needless to say, the Project Manager and company owner exclaimed "Phase 2!!"

when they saw my work. (much to the chagrin of the 5 guys who spent 2 weeks

fixing bugs in their java code)


The plug-in issue is a pain for the non-technical crowd.  I try to arm

myself with as many facts as possible - including Flashzone's top 10 reasons

to use Flash - and hope for the best.


Paul



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