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Many people want to make their websites look super fancy by embedding flash based graphics in their website.
I can’t really blame them, Flash is pretty damn fun and certainly adds a little sparkle to the page with cool animations that you can’t acheive in other ways.
I’ve got three main gripes with using them for functional sections of your website, namely navigation menus:
1. Many people can’t view flash in their browser and they won’t be able to see your menu without downloading a plugin (what a pain) – don’t mistakenly hide your menu from them.
2. Search engines can’t crawl flash animations – so essentially, you’re blocking them from surfing your site via the normal navigation which could lead to crawl errors.
3. They’re annoying and I don’t like them.
No flash means you don’t have to worry about leaving a lot of people stranded with no navigation or broken elements on your page.
While I concede to Flash’s coolness (seriously, have you played those punch the president games?!) – your business website will be a lot better off without them.
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