I am not a fan of Flash sites since they are not SEO friendly and take too long to load, however this corporate flash site is very impressive: http://www.jbltour.com/ You don't have to use your mousewheel or scrollbars, just point your mouse where you want and it navigates to that section. When you click on the stickers and scroll again it blurs out and looks like the image is sticking out of your screen. This is the first time I have seen a site look this three dimensional before. Pretty cool.
Yea it looks pretty amazing, I love the auto navigation system Every thing is awesome except the music lol
technology like has been done before, granted its a great site its nothing revolutionary. Also you maybe be suprised by what im about to say; Not all sites are created to make money !!!! Shock/awe/disbelief. Therefore SEO really pays no purpose, outside advertising would do its job in a case like this and therefore using Flash is ok
It does look nice, but it is not compatible with everyone, it takes a while to load and it does not have very user friendly navigation. Some people like that kind of thing but imo a good looking standards compliant html/css design is better than a flash site.
I'd lost interest before the first page loaded. This site is an example of how not to make a website.
Basically my point is how the future of site design is being able to move your mouse to navigate the page like a video game.
In college I had a professor for a web design class, who gave everyone an "F" if they created a flash site for their project. Luckily I have always hated flash, I'm very impatient with it, no matter how cool it looks. You want to blow your brains out, try navigating this site for 5 minutes.
flash has been around for long enough for people to say whether or not it is the future. and quite simply, it isnt. maybe for animations and interactivity, but they can only have a limited lifespan on any website. all i got on that site is a few trees coming towards me... quite long loading. i have been taught that after 6 seconds a user gets bored, and my web design course has told me that 6 seconds should be for dial-up users...
With my 1.2MB download speed just about every site no matter how large loads up in half a second for me. Once everyone else has connections like this they would probably appreciate it more.
I think around 70% of people with internet have a broadband connection, people with dial up are in the minority but it is still a good idea to make your website load for them.
I agree which is why all of my sites load fast to cater to slow connecting visitors. I am referring to the future, which is 20+ years from now. Pretty soon broadband would probably be more common than cell phones.
yeah i agree that more accessible and faster broadband speeds will allow bandwidth-intensive sites to spawn, however i still dont think flash will EVER be that big. in 20 years time what says that we will be using the internet in the same way we do now? i cant imagine what the internet will be like but in 20 years time we will be using something a lot better than flash for certain
I really don't think the internet will really change much in the next 20 years, there will be tons of new features, but as far as basic designs and such, we're really not going to progress much further.
David, that is one of the prime reasons this site sucks. Not everyone cares to or can use a mouse type pointing device. Consider the person with a disability that won't allow its use. I have had nerve damage that makes the use of my notebook's touch pad a lost cause. I can use an external mouse, but that's not always feasible, now, is it? What of others who use a screen reader, Braille pad or other non-graphical UA? Without keyboard navigation, the site is unusable. Further, there is no content there. The entire page is dependent on javascript. The page is dead should javascript not be available or is disabled. A javascript dependent page is not the future, it is the past, when designers had no concept of usability or accessibility. Sorry, David, this site is a step backward, not forward. cheers, gary