Flash websites can be very eye-catching, but if unless you're in the entertainment industry, it may not be very effective for a variety of reasons. One, flash websites can be slow loading, especially if the visitor is not using a fast Internet connection. Internet users have fairly short attention spans. If your website doesn't load with in 8 seconds or less, they're gone. Also, flash websites are bad for search engine rankings as there is no content for search engine spiders to crawl through.

But the biggest reason why you should avoid flash websites is that they are distracting for visitors. Look at the biggest ecommerce sites and you notice that almost none of them are flash websites. Why? Because distracted customers don't buy. If you're using your website to promote a business or to sell, you want as few distrations as possible between your content and your visitor. So stick with the plain vanilla HTML site.

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Flash can be used to spice up a page, but never rely on it. The severe lack of mobile device support as well as the lack of support on open source systems is a huge downside to using flash as a large part of any website. Another thing I have had clients tell me is that they don't "trust" flash sites. I for one doubt I would ever enter my credit card information into a flash front end...

Though when it comes to traffic, flash content can be wildly successful if you're taking advantage of social sites. StumbleUpon for example.

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Now Ajax can also be used to spice up the website.but its not possible to do very advanced stuff but its possible to plugin various stuff that looks really awesome.

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i think, user mostly do not wait so much for opening site.

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Flash can be used to spice up a page, but never rely on it. The severe lack of mobile device support as well as the lack of support on open source systems is a huge downside to using flash as a large part of any website. Another thing I have had clients tell me is that they don't "trust" flash sites. I for one doubt I would ever enter my credit card information into a flash front end...Now Ajax can also be used to spice up the website.but its not possible to do very advanced stuff but its possible to plugin various stuff that looks really awesome.

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with comparison of previous time. now i do not see much flash sites.

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One of the main reasons why Flash is not the best thing to include in your website design is because it really slows down your site. When an individual types in your web address and points the browser to your site then when they arrive they will be waiting a significant amount of time for the site to open. The truth of the matter is that nobody cares so much about your flash design that they are going to sit around and wait for your site to download the information in order to open it. So, when you use flash design you might have a "better" looking site, but you also can expect to lose a lot of traffic because people just don't sit around and wait.

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