website design: html vs flash?

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Sep 29, 2006 | 04:33 PM

#31

firebane

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Originally Posted by Derek

should I mention I know no html?

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btw, decided on html. Not sure if I am going to be up to the challenge of doing everything in notepad just yet

if you can read and can learn you can learn HTML very quickly

Sep 29, 2006 | 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Derek

should I mention I know no html?

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btw, decided on html. Not sure if I am going to be up to the challenge of doing everything in notepad just yet

what kind of site are you looking to build?

Sep 29, 2006 | 05:20 PM

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From: Mexico, by Jaymar

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what kind of site are you looking to build?

text based, but want it to look good. Not cheap looking, per se. I descibed what I am using it for, up above. Basically an online portfolio/creative outlet for me.

Sep 29, 2006 | 05:27 PM

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text based, but want it to look good. Not cheap looking, per se. I descibed what I am using it for, up above. Basically an online portfolio/creative outlet for me.

I personally hate them, but check out CMS systems like Xoopa or Joomla maybe.

Sep 29, 2006 | 05:44 PM

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stick with html based with a nice flash nav bar or someting like that

Sep 30, 2006 | 07:20 AM

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Derek

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From: Mexico, by Jaymar

I am taking everyone's advice into consideration. I know shiet about website design, but am not entirely clueless

Sep 30, 2006 | 08:41 AM

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flash sites are only nice if they are absolutely awesome. if they have anything that doesn't look appealing, the whole site sucks and looks too amateurish :hs:

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Sep 30, 2006 | 09:08 AM

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From: Mexico, by Jaymar

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flash sites are only nice if they are absolutely awesome. if they have anything that doesn't look appealing, the whole site sucks and looks too amateurish :hs:

already past that, chief. How's the wifey?

Sep 30, 2006 | 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by mayonaise

i don't like flash for content-driven sites. for simple multimedia sites, where there's not much text, but lots of visuals, flash is great. it works real well when you're just trying to be eye catching. it's also good for a title bar with animation, or some kind of intro movie. otherwise, it has its limitations. there's no back and forward buttons, unless you program that yourself into your flash file, no bookmarks, can't right click on links, etc

I don't know what you're talking about...I've been using flash + xml for content driven sites for a while now. I'm not real big into flash too much anymore, as i prefer PHP for most anything I do.

Learning a powerful scripting language such as PHP can greatly enhance and help streamline a site. Surprised no one else here mentioned it...guess you're all n00bs.