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

[Maria Korolov (Trombly)]

A friend of mine needed a website for his new business and hired a design
firm. They sold him on an unusable -- and unmanageable -- Flash-based
website. (You couldn't search on it, you couldn't cut-and-paste, it took
forever to load, etc... a total waste of his money.)

When I pointed this out to him, he said that the designer made him sign a
one-year support contract -- and the designer retained all the source files.

Sure, the website probably looked pretty to an untrained eye, and that's how
the designers got him to go for it.

Once I pointed out the functionality problems -- and the huge vendor lock-in
problem -- he was pretty furious with the design company.

And I'm sure they would also say, "Well, this is what the client wanted,"
blah blah blah.

That's crazy -- any website design has to start with the question: "What
will your website visitor want to do?" and not with "Do you want your site
to look really cool?"

And the answer is NEVER to see an unwanted Flash animation and listen to
background music.

Sorry, pet peeve of mine.

-- Maria


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Richard Lanham <richard.lanham at gmail.com>wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
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> Flash is used for much more now then splash pages now. I use Flex to make
> all kinds of Flash apps that communicate with middle-tier and streaming
> servers, etc. You'll be missing quite a bit of what is available  if you
> disable Flash in your browser.
> And the www.reelifeproductions.com splash is great! Nothing wrong with
> that at all. Great work!
> Richard
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