{"id":469,"date":"2013-06-04T00:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T00:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2013-06-04T00:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T00:44:46","slug":"why-you-dont-want-your-website-to-be-in-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/469\/why-you-dont-want-your-website-to-be-in-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you don&#8217;t want your website to be in Flash!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want your website to be found?\u00a0 Do you want your website accessible from smartphones and tablets, besides the home computer or laptop?\u00a0 Then you shouldn&#8217;t develop your website in Flash.\u00a0 If you want your website to be big, your website shouldn&#8217;t be in Flash.<\/p>\n<p>Flash is like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pauladeen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Deen&#8217;s cooking<\/a> &#8211; it is very heavy with lots of butter and fat.\u00a0 It might taste good and look good, but you can&#8217;t have it everywhere and all the time &#8211; it won&#8217;t work.\u00a0 You can have a faster loading website without Flash.\u00a0 If you think you cannot have a pretty website without Flash, you are wrong.\u00a0 All the animations and transitions you can do in Flash you can do in other programming languages such as javascript, which is what our software UltimateWB uses for flash-like content too.\u00a0 Following our food metaphor, javascript is like\u00a0substituting natural food coloring\u00a0beet juice for artificial coloring Red #40 &#8211; it can even look and work better,\u00a0and in the case of programming languages, it can also cost less.<\/p>\n<p>Why limit your website traffic?\u00a0 Why ruin your search engine rankings?\u00a0 Companies are turning to developing mobile apps because internet\/data use is so big now on smartphones and tablets.\u00a0\u00a0On the same note, it&#8217;s just not a good idea to develop your website in Flash &#8211; not for the design, functionality, or usability.\u00a0 Even if it&#8217;s a band website, photography website &#8230; any website that needs to be pretty or artistic.\u00a0 Do it with javascript, or let UltimateWB do the coding for you.\u00a0 Plus, UltimateWB is much easier than Flash software.<\/p>\n<p>If you still think Flash is the way to go for your website, post a comment and tell us why!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want your website to be found?\u00a0 Do you want your website accessible from smartphones and tablets, besides the home computer or laptop?\u00a0 Then you shouldn&#8217;t develop your website in Flash.\u00a0 If you want your website to be big, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/469\/why-you-dont-want-your-website-to-be-in-flash\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,63],"tags":[291,151,344,340,152,341,342,343],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-website-design","tag-cross-platform-compatibility","tag-flash","tag-flash-software","tag-flash-websites","tag-javascript-vs-flash","tag-smartphones","tag-tablets","tag-website-compatiblity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}