ArticlesReader.com Menu

Newest Articles
Most Viewed Articles
ArticlesReader.com RSS
Submit Article
Login
Signup

Search the articles

Articles Main Categories

Advice
Animals
Automobiles
Business
Career
Communications
Computer Programming
Computers
Entertainment
Environment
Family
Fashion
Finance
Food
Health & Medical
Home & Garden
Humor
Internet Business
Internet Marketing
Legal
Leisure & Recreation
Marketing
Other
Politics
Reference & Education
Religion
Self Improvement
Sports
Technology & Science
Travel
Writing

Subscribe

Receive alert message from us when new articles submitted to our site for free.

Syndicate

Related Products

Home::DHTML

DHTML or Flash?

Author : Riaan Pieterse

The last five years has seen an exponential growth in the use
of shockwave and flash animations in creating websites. The old
tried and trusted techniques such as D/HTML are slowy moving
over to make room for this newer multimedia delivery vehicle.
Scripting, such as Javascript, is viewed with disdain by some
and ignored by others. Yet the people who advocate the use of
flash/shockwave in creating multimedia-rich sites are not asking
the right question: Is all that glitters gold?

An important facet of flash / shockwave glossed over by most
people is that these technologies are a packaged scripting
environment: In other words - most of what you can do in flash,
you can do in DHTMl with a liitle effort. A question that pops
up at this stage is: Why would I want to go through all of that?
The answer is simple and is illustrated by way of practical
example.

Pick a topic - any topic - and type the relevant seach keywords
into your favorite search engine. Now try to find a flash site
under the first thirty results. You will be surprised to find
that this 'silver bullet' of web design does not even feature.
The majority of search engines do not support the indexing of
shockwave / flash sites - this can have a detrimental effect on
your Internet business if you rely on search engine traffic to
generate revenue. Remember one thing: Content is king and the
only recognised content is in HTML pages.

Bells & Whistles: Where, When and What

Deploying rich multimedia sites are becoming more and more a
design requirement. However, the objective of your site should
be the determining factor between using D/HTML or Flash for
multimedia content. Exposure and the generation of revenue
solidly discounts the use of Flash as the major site component -
search placement is too important to sacrifice for a simple
thing such shiny buttons. D/HTML provides an attractive
alternative to ensuring that your site is indexed properly by
search engines.

However, Flash should not be put out to pasture based on this:
Limited Flash content can still be an asset on your Internet
presence if used judisciously. Corporate Intranets are another
matter entirely: Flash provides the perfect delivery vehicle for
rich business applications, where DHTML would be more of a
liability than an asset - e.g. training material, presentations
and etcetera.

In conclusion, the objective of a site should determine which of
the two technologies are the preferred medium for mutimedia
delivery.

Spam emails More free articles

More related feeds

menus and flash
I have a vertical DHTML drop down on my site and I also have flash files playing - well when I have a flash file below the menu the drop down slips behind the flash file and you can no longer see a portion of the drop down. ...

Overlay DHTML popup on top of a Flash movie
To have the Flash rendered in the Windowless mode, which will allow the browser to render Flash as a regular internal layer hence can be covered by a DHTML overlay. Note: Adding wmode only to the object tag will work for IE but not ...

DHTML Video embedding
In this post we have embedded a transparent DHTML layer which contains a video spokesperson. It is attached to the top-right corner, and incorporates a transparent flash video player with some special features, available for sale.

Wrigley Names Tribal DDB Worldwide as US Consumer Digital Agency ...
If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site. ...

Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility
... with just the right degree of details and contains sensible demos. Of course, it’s helpful that the explanations are also related to DHTML menus because problems with those most often rise questions about Flash’s wmode parameter.

Designing a Perfect Webpage - Web design tip by Dallas web design ...
This was time when HTML, DHTML and flash was used for designing website. But again it had its own implications as there were lots of coding and styling involved in using HTML and DHTML which made the designing of the web page an uphill ...

ColdFusion Position In MA
TERC (Cambridge, MA) is looking for a ColdFusion developer with at least 2 years of experience. Requirements include strong SQL skills, as well as experience with CSS, JavaScript, and DHTML. Flash and/or Ajax skills preferred. ...

WPF subset powered by Flash and DHTML
Today I released an example project which demonstrates that you could develop an application for WPF but have it running as XBAP and additionally on flash player and javascript enabled browsers aswell. ...

I want to use a Flash icon with sound next to the menu items in ...
["

Treasure Trove of Website Tips
If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you seeing your entire site text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site. Allow search bots crawl your sites ...

DHTML or Flash?

Related articles