Thread: Advice for designing sites with Flash?
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Re: Advice for designing sites with Flash?
Flash is not one of my favorite inventions. It has its place, but its place is far smaller than what most people think.

Please don't do something crazy and put a billion different flash elements on your page. If you must have a flash link bar, make the entire bar one flash element and not 8 little ones. If you must have a flash intro make sure you have a 'skip intro' button.

Flash just doesn't float well with me. Heck, I don't even like using images when I don't have to. What can you accomplish with a javascript or flash linkbar that you can't do with XHTML that adds more than a cool fading effect or sounds?