Do you use flash on your Web site?

11-22-2006 11:07 AM

wcook

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Has your nonprofit considered or created a Flash animation campaign? What were the steps you used to take it, and what was the result?

For tips on creating a Flash campaign, check out Entertain the Vote: Tips for Developing a Flash Animation, which offers advice on planning, promoting, and evaluating your online advocacy cartoon.

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11-26-2006 1:52 PM

aarontimko

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Well, not a flash campaign, but definitely flash-interaction with sharing capabilities...
Hello, my non-profit, The Order of Christ / Sophia, is looking at doing an instructional game for teens to teach about relationships, money, responsibilities, etc. I *think* we can do this quickly and easily using Flash, so I have started looking into it. The layout would be very simple 2-D, with interaction and feedback - people would click to select their choice and could win points in different areas according to their answers to questions. Still just a baby of a project, but we're looking more into it...

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11-27-2006 7:49 AM

scott.r

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We do not use Flash. We have considered it, but nobody in-house had the time to learn how to create animations and design something we'd feel good about showing off.

I like the highly restrained use of Flash that I sometimes encounter on websites and would model any future use upon that. What I mean is small ads or banners that don't interfere (much) with the browsing experience.

I am often temporarily impressed by Flash-only websites, but they almost always disappoint in the long run... too much form over function.

BTW, this is not an exact duplicate thread, but some might be interested in reading Do you flash?

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12-01-2006 1:07 PM

Deono

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I'm new here and don't know where to post everything, so I'm using this topic because it appeared under the article.

The Article "Entertain the Vote:Tips for developing a Flash Animation." contains a dead link.

The "Toast the Earth With ExxonMobil!" link is bad , apparently you can't link directkly to the movie file. Your link "http://www.exxposeexxon.com/Movie" should be http://www.exxposeexxon.com and people can navigate to the movie, to work properly.

Just thought you'd (techsoup) like to know.

Admin, please feel free to remove this post when/if you fix the broken link... no hard feelings. :)

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12-05-2006 12:41 PM

CLRAdmin

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We do use flash for movies and presentations, but not as a regular website element. I think it has a tendency to distract and add a complexity layer that turns many people off. I personally avoid many flash laden websites because they are hard to navigate.

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12-06-2006 11:31 AM

Jesse

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We do not use Flash. It goes against what used to be considered good, accessible website design. Because sites with Flash attacks are so abusive, I had a Flash-block add-on for Firefox, and would let Flash play only when there was something I thought I wanted to see. When I upgraded to Firefox version 2, I simply did not reinstall the Flash plugin.

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