News from the net.....

Published on June 3, 2002 By joetheblow In WinCustomize News

What is this about not liking Flash?? Flash is great, Flash is rich, Flash can be so.... flashy. As a web surfer I know that flash is the way of the web especaily now with advertising. But is it possible to make a website with flash and not know what the heck your doing??? I think it is possible and it happeneds far to often to count. As a designer myself and as a person who has trained inside of school and out, (nothing beats working in a team or in a atmospher where you can learn from others) I have noticed that allot of sites use flash to such an extent that it is... well... wack. If the user can not use the site well then the site is.... well... wack.

So for those who want to try to aviod designing wiggaty wiggaty wack sites (with or without flash) then take a look at this form CNET.

Comments

iknowwhatilike

on Jun 04, 2002

I have never used Flash before. I did just upgrade to the MX Suite so I'm going to start dabbling in it.
But as a sport fan, I frequent several sports sites, The Fox Sports Site is not longer one of those, for the same reasons above. Too confusing to find what I want.

craeonics

on Jun 04, 2002

Nielsen is the nail on the coffin of true webdesign. Yes, he's got a point on bad usability, but that's not Flash' fault. The same "designers" who now use Flash would make an evenly crud html-based site if they did not have Flash (that is, if they had the knowledge).

Flash has only three drawbacks:
1. cpu hog
2. proprietary, close-sourced software, unlike html which is free for all
3. too easy to make bad sites

A distant fourth (to me) would be poor compliance for the disabled. Which is exactly the reason why Macromedia is hiring its biggest critic.

This way it shows that it complies to the new legislation on usability and at the same time pulls a clever marketing ploy by presenting itself as a "consumer aware" company.

There will still be crap Flash-websites. nothing they can do about that.

Galfant

on Jun 04, 2002

The over-use of any web design tool whether it's Flash, Swish, or Java makes for a poorly designed web site. A good site loads quickly, is easily navigated and makes the user want to come back.

One tool I almost always use, which seems to have almost disappeared from the internet, is "frames". I use them to keep all the complex graphics to a single load, keep the navigation constanly visible and eliminate as much scrolling as I can. An example of my sites can be seen at:

http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/atl/l/i/lieburnd/

Forced2Register

on Jun 04, 2002

Blame the designer not the application. Need I remind anyone of Java lake applets, DHTML cursor trails, frames or even animated gifs. All were over used at one point, it happens to everything that becomes "trendy".

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