About Flash:

Flash is a tool which is really powerful and it is known to add a great deal of flexibility to the design of a website, if it is used within reason and in the right places. There are benefits of Flash which we are going to tell you here:

The advantages of the websites designed with Flash:

It is easy to create and view the Flash animation.

There are banner advertisements which are animated, which is available in Flash and it will have a higher rate of click through more than the static ones.

It is possible to have animation, interactive movies and also menus.

The video will work in the best way in all the Flash applications. It won’t be needing any plug-in which will be depending on some operating system like QuickTime or MediaPlayer.

Flash is one application which doesn’t depend on the operating systems and the browsers and can be viewed in the best way by any person. The person only needs to have a Flash plug-in.

It is best used for the website introductions and also it adds a glamorous look to the website.

It can have a bit of disadvantages as well:

There has to be a reason for using Flash: Flash is used for designing websites and enabling animation. However, it has been noticed that it doesn’t serve any particular purpose. Visitors however, go to a website for getting information and not to be amazed by some animation. So it is not really going to help you to have this application for grabbing the interest of a person. The website needs to have content which is good in quality and also informative. There are intros of websites which fade in and out with the text messages and that too change the position. But these fail to capture the interest of a reader unless the messages mean something to him.

Flash intros for a website can make it take longer time to load: Flash intros can increase the homepage’s size and thus it will take a little longer than usual to download. The readers are less patient when they are looking for something since it takes a lot of sites to see to know something finally. Thus they won’t stay on your site for along time.

We will be talking about ActionScript as well since this blog is focused on the benefits and disadvantages of Flash & ActionScript.

ActionScript:

There are benefits of ActionScript which we are going to tell you:

All that you will build will be fast: The developers who work on this platform say that they are happy to do so for they were frustrated with Flash. It is sad but true that the Flash Player is not so easy to run since it has some limitations. On the contrary, ActionScript 3.0 is known to provide with a 10 times better increase in the overall performance which include different language versions. There are instances when the performance has been seen to be more. Thus you are able to control a lot of objects at the same time. Better performance is guaranteed with ActionScript 3.0.

The skills of yours will be in higher demand: It is one of the reasons for which the programmers and developers opt for this. A lot of the Flash works are now being built under this and if you are thinking of working on Flash, be sure to include ActionScript as well.