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THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT FLASH IS COOL! You see it and you want it. But, coolness has a price and if a web design company sells you on cool looking Flash site, you will be paying a lot MORE than the cost they have quoted you for.

Here are 4 reasons why:-

1) DEVELOPMENT COST – Flash development is lot more costly than standard website development. Roughly areound 100-150% more than HTML based website with Ajax / Javascripted effects. Moreover, everytime you want to update your content (even a single word), you will require a Flash developer to help you (they are usually quite well-paid and always busy!! )

2) ACCESSIBILITY – Although Flash is very common, there are still many web users (especially corportate users) who has no access to the Flash plugin. (Oh, you can say bye bye to all those iPad / iPhone users)

3) SPEED – Although most of us are now enjoying the great speed of broadband internet services, Flash sites are still relatively SLOW. You have to wait for the initials to load before you view and access the Flash site.

4) and….. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION – Why build a beautiful website when nobody can find your website on search engines?? Although Google have said they can now crawl through Flash content, it is a fact that Flash-based sites perform extremely poor in general searches. Sites built in Flas prevent access to general web spiders, hence compromising their ability to be crawled and indexed.
This is why we don’t offer Flash-based website to our Mavista clients (there are exceptions of course, for example, online game websites). We understand the need to create cool and attractive websites, but we have created many eyes-catching but yet SEO friendly websites. Check them out: Our Project Portfolios