"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. "
Why does it matter whether they use it or not? You said they werent around so far we have talked about two of them. Then there is http://www.flashloaded.com/flashcomponents/fcms/ http://flashblocks.com/ http://www.comatool.com/ These are just a few there are many more. Furthermore since it's all XML it quite easy to hook most CMS systems up with it. And Gaia is quite a good framework with tons of big clients who uses it. "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." You are really missing the point. Blitz delivers flash sites among other things for their clients. Their clients don't look for flash companies, they are not in the SEO game neither is most agancies. You are confusing herbalife and viagra with the agency business. Here referrals and network is king not SEO. Furthermore if you actually took the time to look at the source code you would see that it's pretty well covered with regards to SEO. Don't take my word for it, investigate it yourself. "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." Why is that arrogance? Some companies don't need SEO. But if your argument is don't do flash because of SEO then you are not only wrong, it's you who are arrogant IMO. There is plenty of opportunity to do SEO today even with flash sites. You bring up criticism that have long been solved. "Again, please point out how you integrate a blog into Flash instead of just saying 'wrong'" Depends obviously on what kind of blog you are talking about. Fantasy Interactive did a blog only in flash at one point. But why would you do it anyway? Normally you would do you blog in HTML but that is not a reason not to use Flash. Look at how blitz do it, it's not just as simple as a flash site. It's much more than that. "Even if it could, displaying this site in a tiny window wold be ridiculous - it's made for a huge screen." So are websites, that's hardly a problem with flash. "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." Not hostile, just tired. You arguments are totally ignorant of where flash actually are today. That is what annoys me, it wasn't meant to be hostile. "As for as not understanding the context they work in, I've worked in their industry for 20 years. " ehm didn't you just yourself say: "The length of time either technology has been around is irrelevant, but a convenient excuse. " :) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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
