Hey, there's no need to get upset here.
"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.
I said 'That I know of'. It's true that I'm bit familiar with Gaia,
but I doubt if they are using that. Please list a single CMS
(preferably not hacked) solution for Flash instead of simply saying
'totally wrong'. About the only thing I've seen that comes close is http://www.flashxmleditor.com/
, (which seems pretty limited from their demo) but I'd be happy to
learn of something more than 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.
I would challenge any Flash site to get as high on search engine
results as a continuously optimized one in HTML. I'd also like to see
one that can include HTML snippets that make it easy to to SIte
Analytics. As for deeplinking, IMHO, that's a pretty awkward mechanism
in Flash, and hardly one I'd want to rely on for my site getting the
kind of hits I'd want.
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.
That's the kind of arrogance that I saw with the company I left (as I
made clear). 'We don't need SEO' they said. Fine. I don't agree with
that strategy, but that doesn't make me (once again) 'wrong' because
that's a strategic decision with no right or wrong answer, not a
technological one.
"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
Again, please point out how you integrate a blog into Flash instead of
just saying '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.
The length of time either technology has been around is irrelevant,
but a convenient excuse. A redirect based on a mobile device
accessing the site, and a page that shows the address and phone number
is not rocket science. I'm not saying that the site is broken because
a iPhone can't display Flash. Even if it could, displaying this site
in a tiny window wold be ridiculous - it's made for a huge screen.
"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.
What's amazing to me is how hostile your tone is. I'm merely saying
that this site, as well as a lot of other sites that use Flash, are
ones that I find flawed. As for as not understanding the context they
work in, I've worked in their industry for 20 years. Please calm down.
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