Flash Arcade Games Online

World-over we see a drastic change in how the websites used to be designed a few years ago. But for the larger part of internet community its still the older way of living. Although people are getting attracted towards the change but still they want to stick it with older means, due to their own resource limitations, and the bigger issue for some designers is that search engines aren't up with this change.

This new wave called Flash is just sweeping across those who love to see new and better face of internet. Flash is a web program used in websites which provides graphical enhancements to the existing networks. An enhancement by which you can view high resolution images, animations, videos and even play games. With flash you can use vector graphics or in other words flash uses vector graphics. Flash animated movies are much smaller in size and the quality or clarity of movie remains intact. Even high quality images can be used in an animated way with much lesser size and without making any compromise on image quality. Flash also allows interactivity for users. Online games are very good examples of Flash interactivity as well. Flash can also be made to use with dynamic content. Flash has an inbuilt support for a programmable language which makes it highly flexible and easily programmable. The inbuilt language is known as AS 2.0. Moreover this programming does not require any programming skills like Java etc. Another added advantage is that once flash gets loaded, you don’t have to wait for each page to load again.

With All these Major Advantages and a big boost for Graphics and animation industry, its still is laggard due to search engines negligence to it. Search Engines like Google, yahoo or for that matter any search engines does not index anything from flash. Not only are search engines unable to index graphics and images but also they are unable to index text inside the flash. if problem can be sorted out using Keywords and content inside Meta tag than there wouldn't have been any problem. But unfortunately Meta tags don’t help the cause either. For the links that are created in flash Google doesn't follow them or even manage to crawl them.

For all this, we hope that search engines sooner or later do something that enables us to visit complete flash websites or search text inside them through search engines. For now, I consider flash to be used only where entertainment website is required or some interactive information is to be provided but not for the purpose of Information websites.

by Rahul Goyal author for sycamore.in and sarvpriya.com