[Hidden-tech] Restaurant websites built using Adobe Flash?

[Jason Turcotte]

I'm pretty sure the question was posed as to why many website are done  
in Flash, not "let's bash Flash websites".

It seems this thread has already gone off-topic?  Blair simply stated  
his case and opinion (in a professional manner, IMO) , which is what  
the original question was about. Now, he's being criticized for that?  
Come on people, be reasonable.

Tom stated this was a waste of his time.  He would obviously NOT be  
the target market/audience for the website Blair mentioned.  A  
designer's mission is to meet his client's goals.  They may be some  
suggestions and "gentle prodding" along the way, but ultimately it is  
the client that needs to be satisfied.

So let's either cancel this thread or get it back on topic...  
otherwise it is a waste of everyone's time.


Jason Turcotte
Turcotte Data & Designs
413.303.1533
www.turcottedata.com






On Jan 22, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:

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> Tom Kopec wrote:
>> At 09:52 AM 1/22/2009, Info @ WinansCreative.com wrote:
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>>> We had cases where SEO wasn't that big a concern to our client,  
>>> and we explained the risks/benefits of using Flash well in  
>>> advance. The goal was to get people to spend more than 20 seconds  
>>> on the site looking for just their info, so that they could really  
>>> experience what the brand was all about.
>>
>> IMHO, this is a serious problem. You are wasting my time for your  
>> (client's) goals. In general, if I get stuck in eye candy when I'm  
>> looking for information (MY goals), I will go somewhere else if  
>> possible.
>>
>> While I'm ranting, I generally surf with sound off because of all  
>> the noisy websites out there. I'd really like to be able to leave  
>> sounds on, but it is just too distracting and annoying, not to  
>> mention a waste of bandwidth.
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>> Just my $0.02, foe what it's worth..
>
> I use Firefox for browsing. I installed the addon FlashBlock. ;-)
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> When I come to a site that has half a dozen flash thingies on the  
> page, I have blank blocks where those would be and a play button in  
> the middle of the block. If I choose to see what's up, I can click  
> on the play button. But, mostly they are just advertisements, and I  
> don't care. It greatly simplifies browsing and eliminates most of  
> the distractive "flashing" all over the web page when I'm trying to  
> read some text. I'd almost forgotten about those stupid hula girls  
> on weather.com until I just now tried to remember what it used to be  
> like. Do they still have those?
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> When I come to a page that has one of those introductory "movies",  
> it is blank with a play button. Typically, there is also a close box  
> that indicates you want to bypass the introductory item. Since my  
> browser didn't automatically start downloading and playing the  
> flash, I get where *I* wanted to go faster.
>
> Occasionally (rarely) I will have trouble working with a page  
> because of the restrictions I have applied to Firefox. In such  
> instances, and only in such instances, I will jump to Safari. Then  
> it generally works and I quit Safari and go back to Firefox for  
> almost all of my browsing.
>
> For those on low bandwidth connections, this may also solve some of  
> the bandwidth problems.
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