Comprimising your presentation to accomodate the masses. If your site is and subject matter is "High Energy' by all means use Flash. If your site is image driven like photography, go for the larger image file and show your best. Keep in mind that not every site is a "Walmart" and has to appeal to everyone. In many instances the finer presentation and higher bandwidth will grab(qualify) the clients you want and keep the others away. Example: I have many photographers as design clients. I say image comes first. They charge in the neighborhood of $10,000 per wedding. Bottom line, "wow" the heck out of the broadband users at the expense of "Joe dial-up" who wasn't going to be able to afford you anyway. You don't see Wolfgang Puck openning restaurants in "Smallville". That be Olive Garden's market. Web design and marketing needs to catch up with and embrace the Madison Avenue philosophy. Target, Target, Target your customer.
MTheory, I agree that presentation counts. Really depends on your niche and business. If you are selling more for offline customers, yes, flash and other website building language etc would be great. But if you are trying to sell to online customers, then building your website with clean HTML that makes your website fast loading is key. It can still look nice and professional.
Mistake no 1 was not using a spellchecker. Ho hum - typos and not having English as your first language is one thing - but when someone is setting themselves up as some kind of authority I do roll my eyes when they put a huge stonking spelling mistake - and then emphasize it by making it red
Are you saying that you use larger image files (resolution or size) or just more of them in order to convey the message of your client? Just a little confused. My site is trying to sell to everyone so I make it look nice with smaller image files that load fast, so I think I would be following your philosophy. Anyhow, just my ideas and questions, Matt
I never use Flash, because it isn't search-engine-friendly. Besides, I want to appeal to dial-up users. Even broadband or DSL users may have trouble with Flash, especially if their computer resources are being used by different programs (such as internet radio).
From what I've seen over reliance on flash can really limit the amount of real content that can be presented.
Flash is the only self contained platform that can include music, video animation, and dynamic content. it is cross browser compatable.(Looks exactly the same in IE or Firefox, opera, safari, ...) Oh, and FYI Google has been indexing Flash content for over a year now.