Stay Away From Flash

I often get clients who are stoked about the idea of building a site in Flash so that they can… well… look flashy. If you’re in that boat, let me give you just one piece of advice: Don’t!

Yes, technically speaking, you can do some pretty neat stuff with Flash, but there are three major drawbacks: they’re difficult to manage, they can potentially destroy your search engine optimization, and they can be incompatible on some mobile devices. (more…)