I have been reading on Google’s Webmaster’s Blog. It was very interesting to see these 3 ‘no-nos’ of building a Google friendly Flash website. ( Read More »)

Flash is a difficult tool to use when trying to create an accessible website. Accessibility reqiures careful attention to the way content relates to everything else in the webSite. Content is not available to the web browser via Flash. The content in the Flash movie is usually encapsulated and closed to the world of SEO. This has been a long standing problem with Flash and this is also the reason Flash was left out of the Web 2.0 craze. Web 2.0 has focused solely on AJAX mixed with HTML and CSS along with a few others. The only attention that Flash received was that for its powerful delivery of video over the web. This has become its name stake in the Web 2.0 world. Now Flash owns 70% of all video shown on the web. Pretty impressive. But, there is a new wave of Flash on the way! Flash content made available to the search engines. Using the power of plug-ins like SWFObject and SWFAddress along with the amazing power and speed of AMFPHP Flash can deliver accessible content to the search engines while giving the user an amazing experience.