Flash can be used to create animations, animated menus, movies, games and more. Flash animations can be made rapidly, using a certain type of FLASH MX which provides the designers with visual tools easy to use and understand.
Usage of Flash:Advantages
Flash animations can be rescaled without losing the image quality.
Flash animations can be embedded in HTML pages as menus, movies or web site layouts.
Excellent to create presentations, short courses, quizzes.
An effective multimedia tool in business marketing and e-learning.
Easy control and model of the degree of interactivity for a certain animation.
Flash movies have a high loading speed, being rendered with controllable quality by all major modern web browsers.
Good for small web site.
Usage of Flash:Disadvantages
Flash is not optimized for search engine indexing
The content of your Flash animation is not visible for search engine spiders or web crawlers
Due to un optimized raster images, the size animation will determine higher page loading
times.
Higher page loading time will loose many of your visitors or customers.
Updating the Flash content is more expensive than traditional non-flash based content.
Not search engine friendly for large web site.
Conclusion:
Good to use a portion of space for product presentation on CD or web site.
Good for creating navigation buttons.
Best to develop an eye-catching web site combining with flash and non based static site.
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