"1) No CMS (that I know of), so content usually changes very slowly, because you have to upload a whole new Flash package to make the smallest change."
Totally wrong. There are plenty of CMS solutions out there, further more good frameworks such as Gaia. You must be reffering to flash 2.0 or something like that. "2) Little SEO, so the company is obviously not interested in being found by a search engine. That's OK, I guess, but a little short- sighted in my opinion. Anywhere you can get someone to find you is a potential piece of work." Again wrong! You can booth deeplink plus google nowaday actually spider your flash files. Further more you seem to be under the impression that a company like Blitz would need SEO the way other products would need it. That is obviously wrong by any extent. Companies like Blitz do good work people will come to them. Companies like Blitz are not in the SEO game. "3) No blog integration (that I know of), and the companies that I like often have a blog. It gives me a little hint as to what they think and where their priorities are." Again wrong "4) Not viewable on an iPhone (or most others, for that matter). That means that if you are on the road and trying to reach them, need a contact number or email and not at a desktop, you are out of luck. In this case, they don't even redirect to a page with directions - you just get a page that doesn't render properly. That's just not acceptable." As far as I know flash have been around for a long long time, way longer than the iPhone. Normally one would say that the player that enters the game latest should know the game. The problem is not that flash cannot be played on the iPhone but that the iPhone don't allow for it. "6) The whole rotating thing that people do with Flash always reminds me of neon signs and electronic billboards (and scoreboards). In a word, tacky and irritating. Now, that isn't exactly a problem with Flash, but with how companies like this one use it on their Web sites. If they want to present themselves as tasteless and in-your-face, that might work for some clients, but it's not a company I'd want to work for either." All you seem to be doing here is illustrate that you don't understand the context these guys work in. I am amazed that you could even make up that list as it seem so far from reality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=45653 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
