Ok let’s face it. A few years ago everyone was making flash based websites. Everyone wanted flash in their site. You could do tons of awesome things with it like add videos to your website, play games, and even create awesome web based applications.
Well the year is now 2011 and things have changed. I love flash and think its a cool platform. I’ve made sites in flash and several flash application based tools. But the bottom line is that flash slowly missed its mark on development of its product. Plus new technologies like the iphone, ipad, or anything apple related to a strong stance on using the flash product on its platforms due to a lot of performance issues on their products.
So because of all this now everyone is turning away from flash and headed towards making websites with no flash or very little flash based code. Everyone is going with more open source development platforms, CSS, and looking ahead at some really cool features you can integrate with HTML5.
I know a lot of browsers are upgrading to handle HTML5 but at this point HTML5 is more of a buzz term. Yes eventually HTML5 will be the standard. But right now it isn’t there yet but it is moving way faster then I would have predicted. But I believe the main that comes into people’s mind when it comes to the internet. Is that if there website will still display properly with advancements in the way we view the web. The is probably yes.
But there is always some chance like for instance with Flash. Now that the iPad is out there and the iPhone if your website is completely built in flash your user base who uses those deceives to explore the web won’t be seeing anything on your site. So any precentage of users who can’t view your website isn’t good for your business model.
Now I love adobe flash and think it has its benefits and correctly areas of usage. But when planning out your website you need to know these trends and also consider how the site is built and the effects that has on how people view it.
If you would like to talk more about Flash development and design please contact me at info@robertmcmonagle.com. I would be happy to go over these benefits with you and see what is the correct route you should take with your project.
