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	<title>Weather and Other Stuff &#187; flash</title>
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		<title>Pointless Use of Flash</title>
		<link>http://www.deth.org/2011/01/19/pointless-use-of-flash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash sucks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[usability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago I looked up a local pizza shop&#8217;s website to see if they deliver.  What a train wreck that site is!  First things  first it&#8217;s flash only.  Their is a little animation.. Basically the shops name moves up on the screen then a graphic shows up.  I only turned flash on to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few minutes ago I looked up a local pizza shop&#8217;s website to see if they deliver.  What a train wreck that site is!  First things  first it&#8217;s flash only.  Their is a little animation.. Basically the shops name moves up on the screen then a graphic shows up.  I only turned flash on to see how poorly done the site was.</p>
<p>The text is small and it&#8217;s only got a menu for the types of food.  The text for the menu is smallish green text on a whitish back-round with the back-round image blended into that.  Pretty poor contrast IMO.  I need to use a magnifier to see it.</p>
<p>When you click on something it again animates with tiny next on a green back-round for the foods in that category.  This text I struggle to read with a magnifier.  Guess who won&#8217;t be getting my business.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really disappointing to see this type of crappy website still around.  Especially for a small business where every customer might count and they are making it harder on them.</p>
<p>Sadly the site designer of course has a link to his site at the bottom.  If I were them I&#8217;d delete that link out of embarrassment.</p>
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		<title>stupid flash websites</title>
		<link>http://www.deth.org/2008/07/07/stupid-flash-websites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[accessibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flash]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I stumbled on a website for a pizza place in our town while searching to see if they have a website with a menu.  I wanted to see if they had anything new.   I always enjoy their food. What was really disappointing was to see that the whole site is just flash. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The other day I stumbled on a website for a pizza place in our town while searching to see if they have a website with a menu.  I wanted to see if they had anything new.   I always enjoy their food.</p>
<p>What was really disappointing was to see that the whole site is just flash. except for a link to the designer&#8217;s website of course and what I see as a spammy area of text with keywords for search engine purposes.  I can&#8217;t help but think of the late 90&#8242;s when I see this site then cringe to think of it.</p>
<p>I would like to know what the purpose of doing this site in flash was.  I see no redeeming reason to do so.  The print is stuck in a tiny font that to me is not legible.  I can&#8217;t change the contrast so I can read it.  I can&#8217;t copy and paste the text into another program so I can read it.  The only way I can change the font is to zoom the whole page in firefox and I believe this would only work in firefox 3.</p>
<p>I think the dumbest thing about flash websites is say I want to book mark a page on the website I can&#8217;t.  For example on this pizza place&#8217;s website I cannot book mark the menu.  If I try to book mark it I can only get the main page then have to click through to find what I want all over again.  But the image around the menu changes by it self&#8230;. wow</p>
<p>I guess the one thing good about it is it doesn&#8217;t have a stupid intro that takes longer that I&#8217;m willing to wait. It seems to last only while the flash loads.  If wanted to watch something I would watch tv or choose to watch something online.</p>
<p>The really annoying thing about this web site is doesn&#8217;t use the browser&#8217;s forward and back buttons.  Instead of going back the way I expect I have to go to the menu and click through.  If I did accidentally click the back button I would go back to a whole different page.  </p>
<p>I hate flash websites.  It&#8217;s not that I am against all flash sites..  it has it&#8217;s uses where it works well.  I guess that what&#8217;s really important about this site is it looks pretty!  Who needs usability if it looks pretty?</p>
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