Well for the webmaster this is a upside unless you are excellent at this or just print screen it will be really hard to copy images off of the site so this is a good point for webmasters/

I love flash and would recommend this to anyone this is excellent and will be making my site Flash pretty soon.

I don't really like flash sites, because they take longer to load, but they do have some cool effects. The only flash I would put in my website though are when you first enter the website. And I hate when there are sounds, most of the time I'm listening to music, and when you put your mouse over a link, it makes annoying sounds.

well that is a good point about flash like i said before i am for all flash as long as they know what they are doing

I don't like full flash sites.
I tend to get bored waiting too long for a page to load.
A bit of flash here and there is cool but the whole site in flash is really horrible.
Especially if the person who made it ads in some stuff that isnt necesary and makes it take longer to load.

Yeah, even though a site can look really cool when it's made in flash, it makes it REALLY slow. Of course it depends, but most time .. No.

anoying but ive found ones that load quite fast at flashvillage great templates

I disdain flash, thus I use firefox and flash blocker. On a professionally developed site (having an actual graphic artist as well as promammer) that is expected to be flashy I can understand ts use. Mostly though it reminds me of the old blink tag.

Of course hter biggest issue is that a web page should be designed to draw people in not turn them away.

In response to the original poster:
I will be truthful and honest with you. I extremely dislike flash sites, as a surfer and web developer. Many people, as soon as they see such a website, they simple turn away. Long ago, a friend of mine made a website out of a centered swf. Using Google Analytics he found out most people spent on average, 2 seconds on his site. Sure there, was a plenty of good content, but it was a Flash site, and that's all that mattered to a visitor. I read in a web design magazine several months ago this quote: "I don't see why everyone doesn't design their websites in Flash...it's so much easier than HTML or CSS..." Maybe so, but it might be worthwhile to note that the website closed down 1 1/2 months later.

I agree with dBahn, if I go to a flash-based website, I quickly leave. In particular, if it tries to play any sounds, due to me liking to listen to music on the PC, I'm forced off it with a flea in my ear, so to speak.

The only real fully functional flash sites that I like are probably the movie sites. I have seen many of them... but the one that really stands out in my mind at the moment was the last XMen movie - X3. I mean from start to finish, it was all about selecting your character, and it follows through a lot of filtering effects and then it shows like a clip, and a lot of stats on that mutant... it was really cool.

I haven't really followed fantastic sites lately... I cycle through a lot of favorites on my Homepage and in my Bookmark sites... but I also see like WWE.com with the flash menus.. and they scroll rather nicely... I see personal sites that actual graphic and web designers do for themselves and they are really well thrown together!

I see sports pages like NFL.com that put up teams and scroll around too.

It can be done very well and not bog down so much bandwidth... and then there is constant looping over and over that make navigating difficult... But I am still a big fan of flash sites and gaming programs... Well done. All I have to do is get a better grasp of using flash so I can keep adding it on to my page.

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