Macromedia Flash Web Sites

Macromedia Flash is a program that uses movement and sound to enhance your web site. NMP can make a complete Macromedia Flash website, but here are some things that you should know:

• It's expensive
• It will take time
• It will hinder your search engine rankings
• Your web site will look very unique
• Your web site will be very impressive

Although we can, we don't recommend that you use Macromedia Flash to create your entire web site. Especially if you have a lot of text in your web site. Don't take this wrong, we really like a well done Flash websites. They have a tendency to really make your website stand out, but as of this writing, we do not recommend creating a website that is totally made up from Macromedia Flash because it generally isn't good enough to get good placement in the search engines. That's not to say that it can't be done..

On the positive side of things, we can refer you to companies that can make you a really good Flash website, that will do good in the search engines. Yes, you read that correctly, we will refer you to our competition if needed. Our goal is to make you a happy customer.

Here is the best way to explain the difference between Macromedia Flash and HTML (the most used language to create a web page)

A web site created with HTML is like reading a newspaper, a web site made with Macormedia Flash is like watching television.

Knowing this you wouldn't want to try to read a newspaper by having someone holding the paper up to the camera so that you could read it while on tv would you? (ever watch a movie with sub titles?)

Macromedia Flash does have it's place in web design. It wouldn't be such a largly used program if it didn't.

There are a lot of things that you can do with Macromedia Flash, but you should be careful how much Flash you put on your web site. You should also take your target audience into consideration. Some people don't like all of the movement that Macromedia Flash can provide for your web site. Some people with disabilities use equipment and programs that won't display Flash correctly, thereby making Flash useless without putting in extra things so that disabled users can see your site. This is just something to think about.

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