Flash and free sites.

[dandith]

What is the general rule on flash on free site's. It' s plugin but are plugin's allowed etc. I was thinking of putting a site with flash banners headers but wanted to check before I worked it.
Thanks

[grzepa]

Im not a LL owner (yet), but I think flash would be a no no on free-sites.

[Porneek]

yup i agree... dont put flash on freesites... there are still lot of dialup users and as u know it takes time for the flash to load, and with all the pics on the freesites, it will just drive surfers away.. just an opinion!

[Linkster]

Some people use the flash banners - its not really that big a deal but for sales (because of the dialup users) I would stick to standard graphics - of course you can resize the banners to get around the standard ad-blockers these days

[Halfdeck]

Flash is iffy like Linkster said because 1) for people on dialup it can take too long to load 2) some people feel uncomfortable about downloading/installing plugins 3) it raises your bandwidth cost a tad.

BUT...Flash *might* improve your sales with surfers on DSL/cable who's used to surfing Flash-enhanced sites. Also keep in mind although alot of people are still on dialup, now there are more people on broadband.

It would be cool if surfers could choose between a flash version and low-bandwidth version of the free site -- for builders that want to go that extra 10 miles to spice up their sites. On the warning page, you'd have: ENTER XXXX (Flash Version) and ENTER HERE (Regular Version).

[RivalDiamondz]

As a huge Flash fan, I naturally feel I should say put it up, but that might not be the case. These guys are right with the load time and such, though the plugin for Flash isn't really a huge deal unless you are programming in Flash MX 2004, the actionscript is not backwards compatable. Otherwise, almost every browser comes with the Flash Player 6 or below.

Halfdeck seems to have the right idea with the choice, but if I were to offer that I would make the entire 'Flash Side' to be Flash. It would seem to be a waste to make an entire new page to just add a few Flash banners and such.....if you're going to do it, might as well do it big no? Maybe thats just me |rasta|

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