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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	You came here for an honest opinion, and I gave you one. If that offends you, so be it, I have nothing to apologise for. If my tone of voice upsets you, again, so be it. I didn't set out to offend you; I was simply offering my advice, which you simply brushed aside without a thought to it. You still haven't given a reason for using Flash for this website other than "I couldn't do it with (X)HTML and CSS". Which [b]is[/b] what you said in your opening post. Aside from learning to use flash, which is good, but still not reason enough for that website. Maybe I should have been more specific than "web job" in my previous comments and said "design job" instead. I'm sure your technical proficiency in using web tools is good, but your design choices and practices in usability and interactivity are lacking. Simply put, if you?re going to use flash, have a good reason for it. "Because it couldn't be done with HTML/CSS" isn't a good reason. Looking at your website, and the content you're providing, I see no reason why a tool like flash is needed to present it. Unless of course you want to showcase your animation and interaction design skills, of which I seen none in that design. No motion, no audio/video, no heightened interactive elements beyond what could be done with images and (X)HTML and a little JavaScript. That's what flash is good at, and what it should be used for. Yes, it's also good at XML parsing and it maintains a more transparent state with database driven content but that's all background stuff that can be done with most any backend technology. IMO, if that's all your using flash for then you?re using the wrong tool for the job. There are of course exceptions to this, like the [url=http://www.anandtech.com]www.anandtech.com[/url] reviews that use flash to present graphs of benchmarking results. Here their playing on flash's ability to present dynamic graphical data with a minuscule file size. Given that they often display 10+ graphs per review, this saves them a lot of hassle (in terms of making and saving each individual graph bitmap) and bandwidth, which is good for them and their users. Yet, I fail to see any such reasoning in the choice of tool used to deploy your website. If I'm wrong, feel free to point out what I'm missing. Loading...
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