justin wrote:
a couple of thoughts on seo for flash sites:0. don't use flash. really. don't. 1. if you must use flash, minimize it. for seo purposes, less flash is always better. a few small flash files will often provide just as much magic as one large, full site monstrosity. 2. avoid flash based navigation. flash is fun for embedded media, cool animated images, etc. terrible for navigation. 3. if you absolutely must have flash navigation: a. make sure every navigation click in a flash page actually loads a new page, not just new flash content. b. provide an alternate navigation. make sure you can get to every page on the site without using flash. on this particular site, the footer navigation would work. 4. consider using javascript flash detection. one side unfortunate side effect of this is that users with javascript disabled will not be served flash content. but neither will googlebot. 5. if you use javascript flash detection, provide alternate identical content. for every paragraph in the flash file, put one in plain text. hide this content with javascript if you serve them the flash content. in the case of your client, i'd keep the flash slideshow looking thing in the middle of the screen. ditch the flash navigation. you'll prob'ly get more seo mileage out of worrying about everything else you can do for the site. i don't see the current the flash as a major problem with this site. but you might try to talk them out of adding a bunch more... justin
Thank you for your suggestions Justin. I have similar thoughts, but the navigation may be a challange. They want the trapezoid-shaped buttons since it goes along with the IsoTruss frame's look.
I wonder if there's a way to do the color change effects on the top navigation bar's trapezoid-shaped buttons with css?
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