What is a Flash Website?

n a nutshell flash is a multimedia platform that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.

Flash requires an additional software, known as a plug-in to be installed on the users computer. However, this plug-in comes pre-installed with all recent web browsers (Netscape 3.x and above, Internet Explorer 4.x and above).

The pro’s of a flash site

• Flash website are visually striking.
• Practically no browser issues: For the most part, Flash movies will work the same if the user is on Netscape or IE, on Mac or PC.
• Flash provides an interactive environment for a more involved multimedia experience.
• Flash allows you to incorporate sound into your pages via mp3 and wav files, allowing you to use, for example, speech or background music.
• With Flash you have the ability to embed any font you wish and have it display in the client browser regardless of whether they have the font installed on their machine.

The con’s of having a flash site

1. Flash movies still require a separate plug-in installation in order to run in most browsers.
2. The biggest concern with a flash website is that search engines (or spiders) cannot index content within Flash movies. If you create a 100% Flash-based Website, you will have to provide some text or HTML, displayed or hidden, on your Web pages if you want your content to be indexed by search engines. Please note that by hidden,  this means that the content should be available via a no script tag or other means that is search engine acceptabl

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