A bit of an improvement over my last website...

[walla]

Originally posted by: dighn
Looks nice, but I still hate Flash. The interface is slower and non-standard (I can't select & copy text, scrolling is weird etc)

I second that.

 

[imported_goku]

Great site but ypu have a few dead flash links, In the middle of your flash there are about 5 bars, while those work, there are three links above the "solutions" link in that bar, the links are "solutions, Services, and contacts, it's like a repeat of the middle bar and they happent to not work, be sure to fix it or something. Maybe I'm wrong..?

 

[Lifted]

These flashy templates look nice, but there is major problem with them. Search engines will not be able to index the info on the page, thus you will never show up. They also come back to your site more often when the main page is updated frequently.

So using flash as the website itself means that

a) Search engines can't search your website AT ALL. They cannot search through the flash for the links to the other pages, thus NONE of you site will ever be found and the search engines will just stop coming, even if other people link to your site.

b) Even if you update the front/main page, the search engine won't know because of (a).

These issues don't even cover the fact that the fonts can't be enlarged, accessibility programs can't read the text (vision impaired folks), the page will be slow for people with dial-up, and finally some people just don't have flash for many reasons.

I'd switch to an HTML based template for all of the reasons above, as well as the fact that it will be much easier to maintain.

Good luck with the business.

 

[danklumpp]

Originally posted by: goku
Great site but ypu have a few dead flash links, In the middle of your flash there are about 5 bars, while those work, there are three links above the "solutions" link in that bar, the links are "solutions, Services, and contacts, it's like a repeat of the middle bar and they happent to not work, be sure to fix it or something. Maybe I'm wrong..?

Yes, I know it repeats a lot, but I'm not finished with it yet. There's still a lot of dead links to hook up

 

[danklumpp]

Originally posted by: Lifted
These flashy templates look nice, but there is major problem with them. Search engines will not be able to index the info on the page, thus you will never show up. They also come back to your site more often when the main page is updated frequently.

So using flash as the website itself means that

a) Search engines can't search your website AT ALL. They cannot search through the flash for the links to the other pages, thus NONE of you site will ever be found and the search engines will just stop coming, even if other people link to your site.

b) Even if you update the front/main page, the search engine won't know because of (a).

These issues don't even cover the fact that the fonts can't be enlarged, accessibility programs can't read the text (vision impaired folks), the page will be slow for people with dial-up, and finally some people just don't have flash for many reasons.

I'd switch to an HTML based template for all of the reasons above, as well as the fact that it will be much easier to maintain.

Good luck with the business.

Yeah, I wonder if I could convert the text area to HTML, it might be possible. The template included an HTML version with it.

 

[asm0deus]

just use flash for the navigation or little pieces here and there, html, php and photoshop the rest

 

[ttown]

how do i turn off the sound?

if it's not immediately obvious and doable with a click, i'm gone and won't return

add a "Turn off Sound" button near the top

edit: other than that... seems nice