Posted by Travis Newbury on 01/23/08 14:29

On Jan 23, 9:07 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Makes perfectly good sense. It also doesn't tell us what would have
> happened if your son's business instead was selling shirts.

Well actually I created an interactive T-shirt design application in
Flash for a t-shirt company that increased their online sales too
because it allowed their customers to visually design their shirts on
line and order them. Youth sports teams and (interestingly enough)
families ordering "reunion" t-shirts were the biggest increase seen.

But your point is completely valid. It worked for my son's site
because of what he was selling and the fact that his typical customer
was visually motivated. Doing the same thing for other sites may or
may not have the same results. MOST sites would probably have
negative results if they did the same thing. That's why we treat each
site as unique.

<mantra>
Know your client, and know their customers.
</mantra>

> > There is no NON-Flash alternative. If you
> > don't have the newest Flash player the site is useless to you, and you
> > will probably take your business else where.
> You say that like it's a good thing. Why would you not want to go the
> extra step?

It was useless extra work for an all Flash site. Everyone that uses
Flash is eventually going to have to upgrade (that is even stated on
his upgrade page). And generally people that enjoy Flash do not have
a problem upgrading to the new version. The clients he was aiming for
are the people that enjoy Flash. The cost/benefit was deemed to low
to create a non flash alternative (plus I had other things to do and
his site was a free-bee)

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