If you’ve always wanted a Flash website, but found the average cost of having one professionally developed ($10,000-$15,000) to be out of the stratosphere, this might be your lucky day.
There’s a gaggle of new web-based applications that allows anyone–yes, that means you–to design his or her own dynamic, Flash website.
Here’s a quick rundown of all the key players:
Wix is brand-new on the market and allows anyone to build Flash-based web sites that are not template-based. There are two other goodies: The Wix sites are SEO friendly, and hosting is included. Yeah!
Synthasite is a free service that offers template-based Flash websites that are pretty easy to use. The service also offers free hosting.
Weebly is another a free service like Synthasite and Wix, and it offers template-based websites so you can quickly and easily design your website–without all the pomp and circumstance.
And you’re still reading this? Why? Get to work on that Flash site! Happy Flashing! (I mean that in the best possible way.)
This entry was posted on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm and is filed under E-Business, Internet Marketing, Websites. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.3 Responses to “Get Flashy With It”
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September 15th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Great post Lena! Google has also just come out with a product that allows people to easily build sites and wikis! Its called Google Sites and can be found here http://www.sites.google.com
October 13th, 2008 at 2:18 am
With due respect, Flash is not only not completely SEO friendly (the fact that Google crawls some of it doesn’t make it 100% friendly), but it completely unusable, still. You can’t send a link to a flash page, nor you can expect an absolutely fast performance from a Flash page, even it only has static text.
I’d caution against using Flash: stick to text, only use images showing your products.
October 13th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
@Yura:
I agree that Flash is not the most search engine friendly web development solution available, but the reality is that some people still use Flash.
I wouldn’t, however, go so far as to advise people to only use text and and sparse images on their sites.
Good websites should be both aesthetically pleasing AND technically functional. It’s been my experience that good web designers know how to achieve both and never ask that a client make an either/or decision — because it really isn’t an either/or situation.
Thanks for reading and commenting!