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no, iamoto, flash is NOT a good site design. having a flash app or two that is on an off-page and not required, that's cool. having a flash movie, that's cool. but building the entire site in flash?

i prefer CSS sites. much more efficient and portable.

The CSS invision team or something provide good skins, i love there GTA: Skinned theme, its brilliant.

I suppose the best design is the most useful. I do not really like flash-based websites, because it irritates me that I have to wait for an animation to reach a site or something. And a too colourful and - as girls might say - 'cute' site is also disgusting for me. There is a very good Hungarian word for it, and I don't know the appropriate word in English (it might be something like cheesy or stuff like that).

I like simple text-based sites much more than graphical ones. But it's my opinion - yours can be way different.

Well, it needs to be attractive to the majority, clean and not cluttered, coded in HTML 4.01 strict and CSS to W3C standards with no errors and and meet WCAG 2 Level three accessibility requirements, which is also gret for search engine bots too B.T.W.

Flash for example is only attractive to some and for users that don't have Flash, for example search engine crawlers it's not very attractive at all and becomes completely worthless.

Javascript should also be hidden from browsers that don't support it for the same reason.

callihn wrote:Well, it needs to be attractive to the majority, clean and not cluttered, coded in HTML 4.01 strict and CSS to W3C standards with no errors and and meet WCAG 2 Level three accessibility requirements, which is also gret for search engine bots too B.T.W.

Flash for example is only attractive to some and for users that don't have Flash, for example search engine crawlers it's not very attractive at all and becomes completely worthless.

Javascript should also be hidden from browsers that don't support it for the same reason.

Ditto. :p

I feel the same, but i'm not too harsh on the coding. I don't care if it's one or two errors, but mostly i feel the same.

A website primarily has to be overviewable. You have to be able to surf all pages easily. Layout is important too ofcourse. Pages that have to load for too long aren't good either.

My fav design should be like a http://zapada.hacked.in/ this site plus more atrubites cuz this website is very simple but background is good :]