P. J. Alling wrote: ><rant> >I mean what the F***. What is it about current web design and Flash!
The ignorant veeps who *decide* what goes on the corporate web site like Flash because it's, well, flashy. It impresses people who have no knowledge of more important things like usability. Web designers (a few of whom know better) sell Flash to people who don't know better. >It's bad enough when there's a Flash into taking up bandwidth on a >website, and Flash based menuing systems do look kind of cool >until you've seen your third one. Ugh. Flash-based navigation is one of the cardinal sins of web design :( Messes up search engine indexing and user bookmarking. >But why the hell does a web designer have to use a flash image >where a simple static jpeg will do. Most of them don't know any better. Those of us teaching web design in colleges *are* trying to convey the concepts of usability and search engine friendliness to our students, but these people represent a small part of the working design community. In fact, there are a lot of people out there for whom (unfortunately) Flash is their primary design tool. It's the only thing they really have any skill for. And you know what they say about "when the only tool you have is a hammer..." >I mean holy c*** are you so proud of your new tool that you have >to do everything with it! It's not pride, it's either a corporate suit who was impressed with a Flash demo and demanded that "our web site should look like that" or a designer without any ability to work with other tools. Often both. ></rant> I feel your pain. I continue to assign an "F" to any of my students who makes a web site that uses Flash without providing standard, non-Flash alternative functionality. Shall I send you a copy nect time it happens? ;-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
