Can you design a web site in Flash?
We have debate going at work and I need your help.
Would you consider Flash a web design program. My boss is saying its not, because you can’t create the web ready page in Flash. I say that it is becasue the "look and feel" of the site and much of the leg work is done in flash. What do you all think?
It is possible to create an entire website in Flash, and people have done it before. But there are serious implications to doing that, which you need to be aware of. One of which is accessibility. A website made entirely in Flash is inaccessible to disabled folks, who use screen-readers and browsers which don’t have the Flash plugin installed.
Also search engines cannot crawl Flash content, which will affect your visibility on the web.
It is possible to create an entire website in Flash, and people have done it before. But there are serious implications to doing that, which you need to be aware of. One of which is accessibility. A website made entirely in Flash is inaccessible to disabled folks, who use screen-readers and browsers which don’t have the Flash plugin installed.
Also search engines cannot crawl Flash content, which will affect your visibility on the web.
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A Flash website is not the same thing as an HTML website. HTML websites, while not typically as good looking (though they certainly can look very stylish) are waaaay more user friendly.
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I would. You can create whole sites in flash using animation and Actionscript. Your boss is not as smart as he projects himself to be, he’s no expert.
You do need .html or .php pages to display the site, but you can do 95% of the work in Flash for sure… take a look at http://nikefootball.nike.com/nikefootball/siteshell/index.jsp and ask your boss if he thinks Flash is not a "web design" program.
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11 years professional web developer/designer
No its not a web design program. And what I mean is is that it wasn’t made to be a web design program. It is a program that was made to be a non 3D animation program. And it just so happens that quickly over time it became a program that can also do cool animated websites, stream mp3s, create animations (like South Park or any other online cartoon).
An ENTIRE website can be done ALL in flash (not just the leg work or overall look and feel), I’ll give you a couple of cool ones. But Flash has script language that can tell it what to do when you click someplace. So after you draw things in flash, import photos, or draw things in other programs, you can animate it and develop it ALL in flash. And the cool thing is, it doesn’t have to be animated. You can still do a static website in flash, or you can choose to animate it. Its a FANTASTIC program. And now that its an ADOBE product, its a lot easier to import graphics from mostly ever major design and development software Adobe now owns.
Check out these sites, all designed and developed in flash, with some minor help from other programs:
http://www.targetscope.com/
http://www.r3dpix.com/
An HTML site has little or no animations, except for simple things. And you can actually create an advertisement, or have the logo at the top, or even area’s of text or links that can be animated in flash, then inserted into an HTML site. Check out Yahoo’s home page… It’s mostly a static HTML site, but they are notorious for having small ads and even their logo in the upper left done in flash and then inserted.
So think of flash as being a MUCH bigger program than just a "web design program", its like calling a shark a small guppy.
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yes you can..but its better to use html and flash together.
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yes you can. There are a myriad of entire sites made in Flash. You also need to realize, that Flash will also create the supporting .html file that embeds the Flash element in it.
The only few problems with entire Flash sites are:
* Loading time
* Search Engine indexing
Other than that, there are many awesome sites built completely in Flash. I myself did that years ago.
http://www.splashdesignworks.com
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