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Originally posted by Xeeder
Your right about that, but for this site the title, meta description and meta keywords are enough
Meta keywords and description are NOT!!! important and as highly ranked these days as ACTUAL CONTENT.
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Originally posted by Xeeder
With all due respect for those with disabilities but we can't do good for everyone! We have to keep in mind that the people we are trying to reach love animation and flash websites.
OK, so when you get sued - don't come back crawly. You CAN do good for everyone. It is very easy.
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Originally posted by Xeeder
My mobile views the website perfectly
Your mobile has flash? Then I'd assume it was Opera Mobile/Opera or you have a PDA/PocketPC phone which has Flash - you should know then it is not a newer version.
Many portable phones and such will not show the phone.
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Originally posted by Xeeder
The total size of the swf file is 288KB, that takes about 0,5 seconds to load for people with a broadband connection and about 4,8 seconds for people with a smallband connection. Sorry but people who can't wait that long just aren't worth it to visit the site. Anyway if I had done it without flash it would certainly have been more than 288KB and it would be much slower because the visitor would have to load multiple files.
Actually - no, it would be smaller.
Yep, good business philosophy too. People who can't wait long enough aren't worth being a potential/return customer.
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Originally posted by Xeeder
99% of our visitors have flash installed and 100% of the people we purpose to reach with this website have flash installed.
I highly doubt that. Do you have the statistics to prove it?
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Originally posted by Xeeder
There are fading effects wich cannot be done as fluently with any other technology than flash, i don't like seeing anoying page refreshes everytime I click a menu-item, it's better to stream music, ... the content is not static, there's a shoutbox, every tekst you see on the website comes out of a mysql database.
DHTML and javascript.
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Originally posted by Xeeder
* Why do some people use a electric lawn mower and some a lawn mower driven by oil? It does the same thing so what does it mather? And if you don't like to use your mouse, why do you have one?
Wow. That is the most stupid comparison I've heard in a while.
Can a blind person use a lawn mower? No - they get someone else to do it for them - in terms of the website, a screen reader.
You
really, really, really need to go back and learn how to design, develop and produce websites properly.
Before you start on my knowledge and question me - I'd like to explain a little in what I do for a living. I'm a web developer, designer and web standards advocate. I run my own successful business, develop a fairly popular web application, have developed teaching materials on web standards & web design currently used by Australian educational institutions. I provide web design advice and consultation services to several large Australian companies - and a few international. In the close future I'll also hopefully be moving in to the field of teaching the above and possibly running courses on web standards based web development and design practices.
