Does anyone use Fash on their website?

[artstar06]

if so, how much flash is good, and how much is bad? do most users have flash on their browsers or not?
(trying to avoid the whole big gray box on your site thing...)

[jberry]

i have been debating with you using flashj as well. I have three diffrent homepages and 2 of them I put flash on. The only problem is that I don't like it in IE But to answer your question if you are good at flash you can do the whole page the bast on I have ever seen is http://www.tazo.com
But if not you can have some but sometimes it will affect you page rank if you are worried about that

[flabbyrabbit]

Well I think the nearly all users now have the flash plugin, so that wont be a problem. Even though it probably would be best to offer users the choice, either HTML or FLASH. Most people will choose flash but still the option is there for anyone who cant or doesnt want to view it in flash.

jberry, do you not like flash in IE because of the new thing that means you have to click on flash objects to activate them?? If so this can be easily fixed with a small amount of code.

Flabby Rabbit

[jberry]

What is the code, do you know how to do it. Becasuse I hat e when you open it up in IE the flash does not work correctly

[flabbyrabbit]

Ummyeah there are two ways to do it, the first way has a minor problem as it makes IE think that the page hasnt finished loading even though it has, the advantage is theres only one line of code per flash object: http://www.webmasterworld.com/flash/3127590.htm

Where as this one has more code but does the job properly: http://www.webmasterworld.com/flash/3177815.htm

If anyone else has any shorter ways of doing this please let me know,
Flabby Rabbit