FLASH: A couple of cents............

[Glenn Folkvord]

Hi,


I'd like to say something about all the cool Flash sites I've been recommended lately. All have cool animations and spicy effects, but very often I find that many sites are made just to show off. It's OK if you are a web designer or Flash designer and need to display your skills, but after all most websites are not used for displaying skills of the designers, but they provide *content*. I started learning Flash one month ago and so far I've only used it myself to display static technical drawings of certain products my company is selling. When we're having 20 illustrations with tiny details on one page, Flash is very useful because the loading time is fast and the user can zoom in to view the details, so we dont need to display large GIFs for the details to be visible. This is *useful* implementation of Flash. Rotating stars, logos that break up and assemble themselves, 3D animation of words that slide in from the left and what have you, I can hardly see the practical use for all this. I belive some are blinded by the small file sizes, "hey we can cram in so much into a 300 K file, the user will have to watch a complete movie before he find the info he's looking for". 


I'd like to know if there are any Flash sites out there that is using Flash for more than just presentations and skill promotion.


Just my 2 cents worth......


Glenn Folkvord

Krepro AS

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