Problems with Flash in website design

Thanks for the reply. Sorry about the contradictions in my previous post. What I meant was my teacher seems to think if he teaches us Dreamweaver, Flash etc. we can build websites. But I am hearing from people who have a lot of experience in website building that WYSIWYG editors can produce code which can cause problems later. Like search engines not finding the site etc. I just don't want to learn how to make pretty sites which do not work well for the customer.

Let me be blunt and not PC (politically correct.)

There are PURISTS when it comes to HTML coding. Just look at www.w3c.org and you find code checkers and they are absolutely correct that some webpage editors do emit less than perfect code.

BUT WHAT IS THE GOAL? (scream that out until you can't stand it.)

-> Are you looking at this as academia or from the practical view?

That is, academia might spend years getting every dot and slash perfect where the practitioner would deliver fast and good enough.
Bob

I was doing some research on Flash and came across this site which lists problems associated with Flash.
http://www.antezeta.com/blog/flash-problems
I don't know enough about it to comment, but I found it interesting reading all the same. I have Flash enabled on my computer because I use a language site which has spoken words when you click on certain words or letters. But I know a lot of people won't install it because of annoying pop ups and advertising etc.

Interesting reading. I've never been an advocate of using Flash to just embellish your site. But for certain cases, like you mention, it can be quite useful. So: use it with care.

Did they tell you that using pictures (Photoshop!) on a site makes the pages loading slower (the first time, after that it comes from cache) and, moreover, makes the page unusable for people using a text-only browser?
And that adding sound to your website makes it crumpled for people not having speakers connected to their PC? Moreover, google doesn't index sound either.

You can safely discuss that article about Flash with your teacher. It makes sense.

Also remember, that a part of what you learn at school isn't immediately applicable unless in specific circumstances. Most people do quite well without being able to calculate the volume of a tetrahedron or a cone, without being to calculate the time-shift when travelling with 97.8% of the speed of light and without making Flash animations for their website.

Kees
Kees