Flash-based sites have been a craze in the past few years, and as Macromedia compiles more and more great features into Flash, we can only predict there will be more and more flash sites around the Internet. When you position your site elements in Flash, they will always appear as they are as long as the user has Flash Player installed. Flash is a lightweight option for animation because it is vector based (and hence smaller file sizes) as opposed to real "movie files" that are raster based and hence much larger in size. People have to download the Flash player in advance before they can view Flash movies, so by using Flash your visitor range will decrease considerably because not everyone will be willing to download the Flash player just to view your site. You'll also have to put in additional work in redirecting the user to the Flash download page if he or she doesn't have the player installed. Users have to wait longer than usual to load Flash content compared to regular text and images, and some visitors might just lose their patience and click the Back button.

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