Some of you guys may recall that outside my office building lies a mini golf course. Recently, my marketing department purchased a Canon Vixia HF10 digital camcorder. The thing is amazing. It requires no tapes. It stores onto an internal 16GB SDHC card and also has an additional slot if you want to pop in another SDHC card. Not only that, this thing records in HD. I gave it a good test run this past friday. I made a couple good putts but I ultimately lost a bet to my boss and will end up buying ice cream for my department on Monday. So here goes a lower quality tour of the golfing area:
And if you are bored, I also made a couple videos of my friend that also works for the same company as me. We throw around a football sometimes after lunch. I gave the camcorder a test run on the first day it arrived, here they are on youtube: (of course, it’s not HD on youtube and I’m not going to upload a huge avi file)
This is my article about why flash sucks ass and some reasons why you should NOT make your site in flash. A recent study has confirmed what we all know, that surfers hate flash.
“If I’m going to a Web site, I want information. I want information quickly. It could be written in 10 point pica for all I care. I’m already interested in what might be there, why turn me off?”
Subtle use is OK. And widget use is OK. But creating an entire flash page is just overkill. Yes, you want to show off the animation and visual effects but you’re not thinking about your visitors you selfish twit!
The only types of sites that should do this are those that are already WELL KNOWN such as musical groups (U2, Mariah Carey, Three Doors Down, etc.), movie sites (because they are short term in most cases anyway) and maybe product web sites that are VERY FAMILIAR (Mountain Dew, M&Ms, etc.). Otherwise, It is a bad marketing decision to do an all Flash site.
SEO Content is what visitors want. Learn to adapt you flash show boaters.
