I'm not a huge fan of creating sites with Adobe's Flash.  I personally find Flash sites difficult to navigate, bookmark, and retrieve worthwhile information.  However, I can understand why the more artistic Web designers and site owners out there prefer to use Flash when building a website.  But in my mind, one of the biggest drawbacks with Flash is that Google and other search engines have a difficult time reading and indexing Flash sites.  Let's face it, if Google can't search your site then it is highly unlikely your customers will find your site in the first few pages displayed by Google no matter which keywords are being used.

Luckily for Flash fans, Google has changed the rules by improving their search capability for Flash sites.

Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.

In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.

So there you have it.  I just lost my number one argument against building a site using Flash technology.  Web designers and site owners will likely want to read Google's questions and answers pertaining to the improvements with Flash indexing.

ComputerWorld: Industry analysts and a professional developer examine the state of
Microsoft's 'Flash killer' multimedia development technology as it
enters its second year and discuss what it will take for it to succeed.

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The Group94 website, which are the authors of FLASH94, a Content Management System made on Flash. Of course they make use of other things such as Ajax, Xhtml, PHP and MySQL. The result is brilliant, an Application that lets their clients make their own management and site updates in a easy way, without need any programming knowledge.

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"The new Flash Player could run faster, but its high definition support will ensure that it will be a winner.

On the plus side, Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3, version identifier 9.0.115.0
was made available for Linux at the same time as Mac and Windows
versions. It's nice to see Linux not being treated as the little
brother who only gets the older, hand-me down programs by a major
software vendor. An even bigger win for Flash Player users, regardless
of their operating system, is that its supports H.264."

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"Like many of you, my digital camera allows me to take movies. However, the larger file sizes are not web friendly; thus I wanted to convert my avi files to the Flash format. Here were my two constraints:

1. I wanted a free video conversion program that was easy to use.
2. I did not want to do much html editing to make the content run on the web.

Here was my solution..."

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"Adobe skipped a version of Flash for Linux and released stable versions of the Flash 9 player for Windows and Mac OS X long before the beta of Flash 9 to Linux users. Paul Betlem, senior director of engineering for Adobe, explained why the process is taking so long."

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We at Webzo.org Free Flash Tutorials would like to let CMSReport know that we have released a number of Mambo Flash Tutorials and are official partners of Mambo Communities. In addition we have also purchased MamboTutorials.net.

Webzo has also developed new tutorials for Simple Machine Forums and purchased smftutorials.com.

After much consideration we have decided to expand our empire and devote our selfs to new series such as OpenOffice.org Text Editor Tutorials, and new Outlook Express Tutorials. Webzo!'s Outlook Express series is currently on hold but will be starting again within the coming weeks.

Thank you,
Keith
Co-founder Webzo Flash Tutorials

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