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Here is a list of 5 Benefits of Flash

Using Flash to make a website has become a popular trend in web design. What is it about Flash that is attracting so many web designers? Whether you're building a website for your business, your music career or to share your wedding pictures with family, Flash is a powerful tool that opens up the doors of creativity, and provides you with a world of options that just aren't possible with HTML alone.

1. Stunning Visual Experience

Websites designed using Flash are visually impressive, and stand out to visitors. Flash elements and effects allow you to entertain and inspire your visitors with interactive features, animation, smooth page transitions and 3D-style graphics.

2. Cross-Browser Compatible

Flash works in every internet browser, so there's no need to wonder if your website will look different for different visitors. Also, you can easily place objects anywhere you want without having to deal with tables and all sorts of coding nightmares.

3. Interactive Design

Flash is engaging, and forces visitors to participate in the website’s design directly. Menus with color-changing rollover effects, photo galleries that turn automatically, video effects, background music, and more are just a few examples of what can be done with Flash.

4. Search Engine Friendly

Traditionally, Flash is hard for search engine engines like Google to index. But Wix has created a way to make Flash websites search engine friendly – this is part of what makes the Wix platform so special. You get the best of both worlds: a stunning, super-impressive Flash website, that can easily get discovered by visitors on Google and the other search engines.

5. Full Control

Wix’ user-friendly drag & drop web editor lets you maintain full control over your web design. Change the background, move things around, add social network links, refresh your about section, redesign your layout…the sky is the limit, and you can do it all yourself without any programming, thanks to the Flash website builder.

Know Nothing about Flash?

Don’t worry - even if you don’t know anything about Flash design you can create beautiful and dynamic websites easily with Wix’ website builder. You can learn as you go, as Wix was designed specifically to optimize our users' experience. The interface of the website creator is so intuitive that you'll enjoy learning new ways to update your website. And because Wix is also search engine friendly, you get all the benefits of creating a website with Flash, while having your site indexed and ranked.

What specifically does Wix do to make itself Search Engine friendly? Everything I read about SEO seems to scream AVOID FLASH! This worries me a lot (as well as the problems with many Apple OS). What can you tell me to set my mind at ease?

That is a very good question you are asking, here is your answer:

Wix websites are flash based and there is a lot of discussion on whether search engines can actually crawl and read Flash websites. Wix was designed especially to suit Google and all other search engines. At Wix, you can be sure that we are doing everything we can to make sure that your site is crawled by Google and other search engines. We constantly develop Wix to remain on the cutting edge of SEO.

You can read more about the subject through here.

Thanks for information but i have one doubt Flash is really useful when we try for Best SEO. I learn some where Flash and Video not useful for Good SEO its true or anything else here.

my flash player ask me to update every time i log on to the site

Hi MosleyStudio,

if you haven´t done this already, please update your flash player.

If you have updated and still receive this message, contact us again.

Thanks,