I have to disagree with you in some points :)
Maybe the sites you have seen are indeed just badly designed. Maybe you
saw one of mine, I am guilty as charged. On the other hand there are
fantastic examples of "dynamic" flash where data is completely separate
from the design and very elegant.
It all comes down to the developer's skill level and I think Flash gives
everyone a lot of freedom to do good and bad things, just like any
software tool.
I have been a big fan of css based sites as well where you can change
the entire look of a site from 1 css file. I really admire those who can
do it.
Have you tried to create a fully "valid" site? To me is just not fun and
very frustrating. Having to deal with all the browser "personalities"
and tags just kills the fun of creating but for some it makes a more
standard web...
As far as a cure for the disease, a good Information Architecture book
could be a start. I believe the methods can be applied for flash and
non-flash sites that will make better websites all around.
Sorry if I just went off to a different path :)
[quoted text, click to view] Adobob wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying Adobe Flash for the first time, to build a website, and have a few
> comments and questions.
>
> The first comment is that Flash Pro offers no way to make a high-level
> structure of the website,
> namely a separation between media and content.
>
> On the website content:
>
> 1. With no need to use any computer, one collects texts and photos for the
> website, and organizes them in pages.
> 2. It must be possible to input the above work into the web editor, regardless
> of any graphic theme.
> 3. When the website content is in place, much of the work is done, and one can
> turn one's attention to the media,
> namely the structure (how the content is arranged within each page, and the
> links between pages) and the graphics.
>
> As far as I can see, Flesh offers no way to do this. The content and the media
> are blended.
>
> On the website media:
>
> I browsed various Flesh templates to make up ideas about what Flash can do as
> a media. I am utterly disappointed,
> because the media takes the reader's attention away from the content. More
> often than not, the font is too small, the
> transition between pages is slow and animated, and the audio does the rest.
> Elegance is completely missing.
> This is a problem of design, not of Flesh itself. However, one's the above
> content (text, photos, and structure) are
> in place, it should be possible to finish the website by adding the graphics.
> It seems to me that Flesh is about this
> last step, while all of the above is missing.
>
> Please let me know if there is a cure to the disease...
>
> Robert Hunter
>
>
