- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Europe
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
Why would you not return to the site anyway? Both flash and html offer perfect solutions usability wise. Return rate is not dependant on the platform of the site imho. If you create the site in flash that is usable like a html portal, then.. well done. It’s a bit harder, because there are CMS ’s for html, and there isn’t any that I know of for flash which is usable with multiple designs. Maybe someone needs to invent it.
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 200 and 499 users
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- United States
Maybe someone needs to invent it.
This is true.
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Interviewed on the Envato Notes blog
- Item was Featured
- Most Wanted Bounty Winner
- Referred between 500 and 999 users
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
If you need a site with 3d elements, multimedia navigation and FX effects on non standard fonts.
Then go for flash.
- Australia
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
Ask yourself : would you place more emphasis on 1.wowing your visitors on their first visit to your website or 2.having them return numerous times to use your services. If you choose 1 go with Flash – 2 go with HTMLWhy would you not return to a site thats wowed you? If a site doesn’t wow me then I likely wont go back…
Well FWA sites are a good example actually – ‘site of the day’ is in fact exactly what its called – a site for a day – you wouldn’t return to any of them more than a couple of times – weeks later.
- United States
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Exclusive Author
- Author was Featured
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- Item was Featured
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Author had a Free File of the Month
Well FWA sites are a good example actually – ‘site of the day’ is in fact exactly what its called – a site for a day – you wouldn’t return to any of them more than a couple of times – weeks later.
Maybe your or I, but websites are somewhat of a status symbol. If a company has a great one it creates a great impression. But if a company has a bland and generic looking website, chances are no matter how great the company really is, people who see the site won’t be picking up the phone that often 
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Has been a member for 5-6 years
when I think of all the websites I visit (probably 20 I visit daily and 10-20 new ones I follow from links) NONE of them are pure Flash. I am hard-pressed to think of the last pure Flash site I visited unless it was simply to gawk at it from a designer’s perspective.
I’m positively floored by some of the outstanding Flash website designs from a few of the top folks here but I honestly see very few opportunities to use them in real-world projects. Maybe its just the customers I deal with.
on the other hand we use Flash a LOT to add bits of sizzle and functionality to our HTML websites. we prefer it greatly to ajax. to us, Flash websites seem more time-consuming to build and maintain and the trade-offs are usually not worth it when I can still add Flash pizazz to an HTML website.
