Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Flash in Your Website
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Advantages
- basic animations for your website
- interactive “games” can be created using flash
- often used in banner design to improve click through rate and grab attention
- attracts the attention of the eye
- can incorporate a mini presentation into your website
Disadvantages
- increase in file size of the page
- can cause slow loading times on your website (slow connection user won’t hang around and wait)
- some users may not wish to install Flash onto their computer
- more difficult to optimize flash pages for search engines
- not as easy to edit as other more commonly used formats