Brandon Stout wrote:
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?
Try SVG - try Inkscape ?
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