[Sigia-l] how are you making wireframes for Flash projects?

[Stew Dean]

At 19:30 07/04/2004, Michal Migurski wrote:
> >If you can detect a SE crawler (and in many instances you can) you can
> >return to its GET/POST request plain HTML if you choose to implement your
> >Flash app that way.
>
>Anecdotal evidence (the best kind) suggests that Google attempts to defeat
>this workaround, by retrying pages using a non-spider UA string -- I think
>it happened to fluid.com, suddenly all their lovingly crafted
>google-friendly html was being totally ignored. Perhaps this is part of a
>Google strategy to keep webmasters honest?

Having got a few sites and pages within them to the top of Google it 
strikes me that it really is good at spotting ways of cheating 
it.  Published HTML pages (that is with meaningful names ending in .html) 
with good meta tags and content refreshed on a regular basis appear always 
to float to the top of google.

My view is Flash sites are great for doing what flash sites do best - that 
is present products, entertain and deliver experiential content.   Flash is 
also, in my view, the most capable IA tool for doing sitemaps and 
wireframes by a long shot.  The only disadvantage I know is that not 
everyone uses it (the reason I end up using Visio most of the time). It 
really is much faster and more flexible than visio, freehand, indesign and 
illustrator and I feel has a easier interface to work with than all of 
them. But this is just my view.

Stew Dean