Who’s for short loin?
How much do you know about the steak you’re eating?
I found out (thanks Michael) about a nicely developed beef guide from FreshDirect.
No more will you stumble your way around a steak-house menu, questionning staff about the tenderness of a top-butt sirloin or the flavour of a silver-tip roast.
Let me just say that depending on the purpose of your website I don’t recommend having it entirely Flash-based. There’s an interesting conversation on the merits of Flash over on Jeff Croft.com.
What’s your take on 100% Flash-constructed websites?
On another note, I received a fantastic response to my last post, Do you ask for criticism? Thank you.
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I’m in the process of building a fully Flash powered project right now. If you supply alternative HTML (I think both the object and embed tags support this) then spiders will index it just fine, and anyone without Flash installed can play with the XHTML version of your site.
Having stumbled across http://creaktif.com though recently, it makes me want to quit doing XHTML/CSS all together and get stuck in with where the content lies.
So please Adobe… think of a way to make Flash more accessible/indexable.
All the best, Richard.
Good point about having two options for users Richard. That way people won’t need a plugin to view your info. Do let me know when your project is up and running as I’d like to see it.
That creaktif site is an interesting one. Quite original. What I don’t like about it however, is that the text is very difficult to read and there’s no obvious ‘contact’ section.
A pet peeve of mine is a section for ‘links’. There are links all-over the site so what’s different about linking to links?
The automatic sound got a little annoying when I moused-over the ‘movies’ a few times.
“What’s your take on 100% Flash-constructed websites?”
One word: No!
Flash doesn’t deliver information faster than HTML. It just makes the website more “fancy”. My $0.02!
Neat site very humorous. Personally I think all websites should have a healthy mix of XHTML/CSS and Flash. My biggest annoyance with 100% flash websites is the inability to use the “go back” button on my browser other than that there isn’t much else that is worth any merit.
I just wanted to throw a vegetarian voice in the mix. I’m not for short loin! ;)