Is it necessary to build a flash website?

It can often be very time-consuming and difficult to create good animations and forms in Flash. As a result, flash developers are very rare to find and pretty expensive as well.

However many business people have a misconception that they must build a flash website for their company rather than creating a website with simple design to show their image.

Some also think that to create an easy website may look unprofessional from the visitors' point of view.

These prime misconceptions lead them to create a flash website. The actual fact is that a website with a simple web design is more than enough to attract traffic for your site and they are more search engines friendly as well.

Flash is with no doubt a very powerful tool.

The web site which loads in a fraction of seconds in addition to providing best user experience is user-friendly.

If you are building a flash website, the most concerning problem will be the long loading time.

You will find that your flash website consumes too much of time to load compared to a website with simple design.

The size of flash files is increased with the use of audio, video, fonts and duplication.



Since most of the Internet users are quite impatient, they will probably avoid your flash website due to its slow-loading pages.

However, if you can accommodate certain features while you build a flash website the experience would be more user-friendly.

As a beginner, you can try building web sites containing a preloader. The role of preloader is to tell the viewers to wait while the page loads.

Another thing you can do is to decrease the waiting time of the website is to preload only a small fraction of movies or audios before it starts.

Another important thing you need to consider to build a search engines friendly website.

If you build many pages within the flash context, the search engine spiders will fail to understand it. This can severely affect your search engine rankings and eventually leading to the decrease in site's traffic.

So it is always better to create a simple website with a simple design rather than a flashy website unless you are really required to do so.