Comments on: In Defense of Flashturbation http://www.mattjmcd.com/2009/06/in-defense-of-flashturbation/ Ideas and Actions from Matt J McDonald Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: flashfreakmx http://www.mattjmcd.com/2009/06/in-defense-of-flashturbation/comment-page-1/#comment-70450 flashfreakmx Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:33:13 +0000 http://www.mattjmcd.com/?p=830#comment-70450 I completely agree with this. I think that many web developers have become so hung up on the buzz word that is SEO and the residuals that is can bring them that they avoid Flash completely out of fear that they would have to use the harder path of Internet Marketing rather than the 'pump and dump' link building schemes combined with easy to crawl content that many of them offer. Sure content is king, but that is not to say it cannot be within Flash. I completely agree with this. I think that many web developers have become so hung up on the buzz word that is SEO and the residuals that is can bring them that they avoid Flash completely out of fear that they would have to use the harder path of Internet Marketing rather than the 'pump and dump' link building schemes combined with easy to crawl content that many of them offer. Sure content is king, but that is not to say it cannot be within Flash.

]]> By: Craig http://www.mattjmcd.com/2009/06/in-defense-of-flashturbation/comment-page-1/#comment-70379 Craig Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:54:29 +0000 http://www.mattjmcd.com/?p=830#comment-70379 Thanks for defending Flash! And thanks for using the Hook site as a positive example.<br><br>Too often clients see a crappy flash piece and then think all things Flash are bad. Well I have seen TERRIBLE html sites out there but I am not running around saying "oh no! don't use that awful html!"<br><br>I agree with your comment about the "wow" factor but Flash is so much more than that. Take a look at this site: <a href="http://www.thefwa.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thefwa.com/</a> ... browse through some of these works and you will see how far Flash has come. You will see design/creativity at its best and you will experience a broad range of Flash's capabilities.<br><br>Also, one must be very careful when deciding to build a full Flash site. It seems that 90% of the time it makes more sense to build a hybrid (html/flash mix). Choose wisely! Thanks for defending Flash! And thanks for using the Hook site as a positive example.

Too often clients see a crappy flash piece and then think all things Flash are bad. Well I have seen TERRIBLE html sites out there but I am not running around saying “oh no! don't use that awful html!”

I agree with your comment about the “wow” factor but Flash is so much more than that. Take a look at this site: http://www.thefwa.com/ … browse through some of these works and you will see how far Flash has come. You will see design/creativity at its best and you will experience a broad range of Flash's capabilities.

Also, one must be very careful when deciding to build a full Flash site. It seems that 90% of the time it makes more sense to build a hybrid (html/flash mix). Choose wisely!

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