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Posted by Andy Dingley on 11/10/06 12:33
z.heineman@gmail.com wrote:
> We are looking to update our website to a flash based layout,
I'm having trouble associating "Flash" with "update". Don't you mean
"Throw away all the content and replace it with pictures of dancing
penguins, on a site you can no longer navigate quickly" ?
> we do not want to loose customers because of long load times.
If your customers can really benefit from Flash, then they'll wait for
it. These days we have plenty of bandwidth.
The customers who won't want Flash don't want it because they don't
want it, not because oof the file sizes.
Forget trying to measure the connection speed. Instead allow the users
a simple manual (and possibly persistent) switch between the useful and
the Flash versions. Make sure they can switch from each and every page,
not just a one-off selection from some splash page.
Make sure that the HTML version of the site offers just as much
content, and is as up-to-date-as, the Flash site.
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