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Re: Advice for designing sites with Flash?
The majority of humans (including me) run on 56k or less dial-up modems. Your flash site might run just fine when testing it at the lab or from your T1 line at school, but if I come across a flash site that doesnt offer an immediate alternative, I close the page! I haven't even gotten around to installing the latest version of the flash player on one of my computers.

I think that Flash is great for doing animations for fun or instruction (I've seen many flash tutorials, and Homestar Runner is great), but I can't stand it when people make a flash site, or a flash navigation bar on their website.

Face it: It might "look cool" to have your buttons appear in a flash of color and morph around when you click on them, but it is far cooler to me if everything appears instantly. That means, do your entire site in HTML. You can get quite nice visual effect using CSS and careful use of images (another hassle is enormous background images).

When you start designing a Flash-based website, keep in mind that to some of us, viewing your site will be either too difficult to be worth the effort, or downright impossible. Please, provide a non-Flash alternative.

Jonathan