Do you think flash will attract more visitor?
Or they will just dumped my visitor because of slow loading of the file.
This has been debated for several forums now.
And Im thinking what are you're comment on this one?

My thought is that you want your site to download quickly. Put on what you need to sell your product and keep the extras to a minimum. Fancy stuff makes a site more attractive but not everyone has fast internet.

I would say it depends on your audience, if you are attracting corporate surfers then bandwidth is not an issue anyway. I like a bit of flash as long as it's used sparingly, it brightens up a site.

Just don't have a flash homepage, nobody looks at them and it makes SEO very difficult.

Hope this helps.

I'm a professional Web designer and I use Flash in moderate quantities. I agree that you should not have an all-Flash Web site or use a "splash page" which is just some useless bit of marketing fluff that annoys people. However, I think Flash has huge potential for educational applications. You can make a Flash movie to demonstrate some complex point or explain visually how something works or what it does. The best use of Flash I've seen so far, for marketing and sales purposes, is a site (sorry, I don't remember what it was) that lets you see mockups of various decorating options for a kitchen or bathroom.

I use Flash on the site I maintain at www.experioronline.com to help visitors use our contact form. The audience for the site includes a number of people with few Web browsing skills, so I set up these little movies to help them over the hard parts. You can see it at www.experioronline.com/formhelp2.htm. Click the blue button that says "Demo." You'll note I also provide a No Flash version for those who don't have or don't like it.

If a Flash movie causes a site to load slowly, the Flash designer either doesn't know what he/she is doing or the client insisted on an unrealistically large file. Flash actually should load as quickly or even more quickly than a lot of graphics; it's designed to be very "lightweight" but you have to work at optimizing it, just like a good Web designer works at optimizing the html and other code on the site.

Flash can also be used with databases for some very nice dynamic effects. If you want Flash, I'd reccommend you think of a way to use it that adds value you couldn't get any other way. However, DON'T let anyone make something for you that blinks, flashes, pulses, or oscillates in a repetitive rhythm. Such animations can actually provoke epileptic seizures in those who are vulnerable to them. You want to avoid anything that's like a strobe light whatever you do.

Flash will do NOTHING for attacting visitors. As Celebrity83 says, you should only use flash in moderate quantities if at all. Flash used well can help convert or better inform your current visitors if used properly like in a presentation form, but other than that is typically used the wrong way.

So by the sounds of it, you would have no benefit to using flash. If you're not sure of its benefits and don't have a real professional developer to help in (1) advising you of the proper way to implement flash and (2) actually create you a good presentation or animation, you might as well forget it.

And along the lines of it helping you attract visitors. The only way to get visitors to your site is (1) pay for them using PPC services by Google or Yahoo or (2) pay a SEO firm like ours or the others floating around in this forum to help get your website listed in the search engines organically.

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Everything you read suggest not to use flash. The sites that do use it tend to be graphic designers trying to illustrate their capability but for a normal site I would strongly discourage you from using it.

I agree. I get really frustrated having to wait for a flash homepage to load. Everyone I have talked too about flash sites agree, most of us click the skip link.

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Agree with the previous posters. Use as less flash as possible and only if you really need it. Never on the first page. Don't rely on flash to get visitors.
I would rather click "close" if need to wait more than 2 sec to load the flash movie, unless if I know what exactly I am waiting to be loaded, I need it and I am prepared to wait for it by the text placed on your site.

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