What is a Flash Website?

A Flash website is a vector animation based website and hence it appears crisp.  Flash websites are designed to create animations for display on web pages. These animated websites get downloaded and saved temporarily on your computer. Hence you are able to surf a flash website with more comfort and speed and without the worry of broken internet connections.
A Flash website appears to have a soul of its own. As the surfer is viewing the website from his computer after the flash website gets fully loaded so he/she enjoys a more pleasurable and enriching website experience.

Over the releases of new versions of Flash, Macromedia has made Flash more and more controllable via programming, where they have it positioned as a competitor to HTML to build interactive web sites and applications such as an e-commerce store.

Advantages of a Flash Website are:

• Flash movies load faster and save on download time because Flash is vector based whereas HTML is not.
• Flash intelligently ‘caches’ it’s movies so they don’t have to be reloaded.
• Flash gives the user (the person viewing/using the Flash movie) a more responsive ‘rich-client’ like experience.

Reasons to have a Flash Website:

1. Creativity in Flash websites is not static but dynamic. Your WebPages get alive with a splash of color or you can do some really nice work in Flash that would be difficult and sometimes impossible in HTML alone.
2. Practically no browser issues. For the most part, Flash movies will work the same if the user is on Netscape or IE, on Mac or PC. The browser issues (where people coming to your site have different browsers that can ‘break’ your pages) are quickly becoming a thing of the past since most people are using IE.
3. Flash websites can have a presentation that is similar to a television commercial. This type of presentation is something where the user sits back and enjoys the show as the Flash movie delivers the message to the client with animation, sound, and possibly video.