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TwinShields Golf Camps

Hunor Networking LLC — Fri, 27 May 2011 15:46:50 +0000

Junior Golf Camp is a four-day golf school for children ages 7 through 17.
Due to individual hands-on instruction, the size of each camp is limited.
Camp includes golf instruction, range balls, skill testing, on-course experience, rules and etiquette, bag tag and Pro Shop gift.
Juniors will be grouped according to ages and skill levels.

Go to Official site: Twin Shields Junior Golf Camps

Camp Dates
Camp I June 21, 22, 23, 24
Camp II July 11, 12, 13, 14

Times

Mondays/Tuesdays               4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Wednesdays 8:00 am -  11:00 am
Thursdays                              7:00 am – 10:00 am

Cost of each camp is $129.00 per student.

Get a Mobile Online Presence

Hunor Networking LLC — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:42:41 +0000

Many know the impact of a website: far reaching and almost free advertisement. However, mobile interfaces are usually small and so a developer has to re-create in a flexible layout, resize all image contents etc.

Hunor Networking provides a low cost presence on the rapidly growing mobile Web. With an easy to use control panel, you can edit / maintain your mobile website, saving you some in maintenance.

Therefore, your mobile website has the potential to provide you with the capability to:

Maintain your website, which Hunor Networking specially design for mobile devices of all kinds.
Add maps, one touch dialing, and special promotions for visitors.
Automatically detect whether to display the full site or mobile site to visitors.

With mobile Web users increasing by 148% in 2009 alone, having an easy to reach mobile presence is key to increasing your online exposure.

The number of people who browse the Internet on their cell phones is on the rise and if your website is not accessible via mobile phones or is not mobile friendly, you are losing a large portion of potential traffic.

CODING

This is one thing where many new mobile-interface developers hesitate. Below are some tips that can help remove that hesitation:

VALID CODE:

Use proper code and make sure that its 100% valid because most mobile browsers aren’t as good as their PC (Personal-Computer) counterparts so you should make sure that it’s valid.

FLUID LAYOUTS:

It’s not always easy to discover how your layout will look on all mobile browsers as there are far too many mobile devices used for web browsing and to track them all can be a big pain. One way to address/bypass this problem is the use fluid layouts that will automatically adjust to the screen size.

To accomplish this avoid setting widths in pixels and use percentages or ems instead. For instance, instead of:

width: 400px;

use
width: 100%

or
width: 1.0ems

SPECIFIC STYLESHEETS

You can always target various mobile devices for better user-experience. For example, for targeting users browsing your site using Handheld devices you can use this in your website’s :

You can find more about these media types at this link: W3.org – Media Types.

SAY “NO” TO FANCY SCRIPTS

For your mobile website to go successful, don’t use Javascript or Flash or any other of those fancy scripts available out there. Because majority of mobile devices fail to interpret these and end up either freezing the device or just doing something stupid!

If you really want to use these then should give your user a Polite Option so that your user knows what his/her mobile handset is loading and opening up (and if anything goes wrong, it’s their fault and not yours because you already warned them).

TAKE IT EASY WITH THE ADS

This is one thing that almost everyone should take care of! Don’t fill up your mobile page with ads. And this is not only for the mobile page but also for the original website.

It’s an old saying, “One rotten Apple in a basket makes all others dirty”. It goes true for these websites which are full of ads. These websites don’t care about User-Experience but only care about the money that comes into their pockets (because CPM is high on mobile devices).

So my suggestion, just don’t fill it up with ads! “Just don’t make your page with colourful ads.”

MOBILE BROWSER DETECTION (AUTOMATIC)

For making your brand successfull you should also include an automatic “Mobile Browser Detection & Redirection” server-side script (eg. PHP). You might also use this as User Agent detection, where a server makes a decision on what to serve based on how an incoming browser describes its capabilities. You might also want to use this as an alternative or fallback method to the previous one Mobile Browser Detection in PHP. Other implementations feature real-time JavaScript requests to databases like DeviceAtlas or WURFL that also supply information on what a device can do. A mobile version is not complete until it’s automatically triggered for every mobile user!

MAKE A DEDICATED APPLICATION CLIENT (if necessary)

Yes! You read it correctly. If you have a really high user-base, make a dedicated application targeting various mobile interfaces. Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Yahoo and many other big-companies have done this and this is why they have been so successful. If you make an application for specific handsets then you no longer have to care about all the Fancy scripts etc. because you can then enhance the application your own way (you can’t change the mobile browser but definitely your own application).

Announcement vs Discussion Listserv

Hunor Networking LLC — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:55:59 +0000

What’s the difference between a discussion and an announcement list?

Discussion lists:

Discussion lists, on the other hand, are more like forums – while one person may start the conversation, list subscribers are all able to contribute and reply to everyone else on the list.

Email that is sent to the list will then be distributed to everyone else on that list via a moderator. For a large list, this may mean a single message being re-distributed to several thousand people, so it’s worth thinking about what you put in your message and only including as much of the message you’re replying to, if necessary.

Announcement lists:

An announcement list essential functions like a newsletter – information is distributed in one direction to people who are subscribed to the list. They are used for breaking news, announcements and special offers, campaigns etc.

What Is Feedburner?

Hunor Networking LLC — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:42:54 +0000

Feedburner takes the RSS feed from sites like this one and distributes them to subscribers. You may be wondering, what is a feed?

A feed is an easy way to distribute content without requiring people to actually visit your site. A person can subscribe to a website’s feed and gain access to regular updates of a website. These updates are delivered automatically using either email, a new reader, or a web portal.

Feedburner is great because it enables the person to keep up to date with a website’s content. You can have the feed delivered right to your inbox. This way you will always be notified of important posts, events, contests, and news.

What is the difference between rss feed and feedburner? Is there any difference?

RSS: you would need to view the feed online or download like a newspaper (see more at “What is RSS? blog entry)

FEEDBURNER: feed is emailed straight to your mail inbox

* See Feedburner at WIKI

What is RSS?

Hunor Networking LLC — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:30:04 +0000

What is RSS? (““)

RSS is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. RSS is a technology that is being used by millions of web users around the world to keep track of their favorite websites.

In the ‘old days’ of the web to keep track of updates on a website you had to ‘bookmark’ websites in your browser and manually return to them on a regular basis to see what had been added.

RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. You ensure your privacy, by not needing to join each site’s email newsletter.

The problems with bookmarking

You as the web surfer had to do all the work
It can get complicated when you are trying to track many websites at once
You miss information when you forget to check your bookmarks
You end up seeing the same information over and over again on sites that don’t update very often

RSS Changes Everything

What if you could tell a website to let you know every time that they update? In a sense, this is what RSS does for you.

RSS flips things around a little and is a technology that provides you with a method of getting relevant and up to date information sent to you for you to read in your own time. It saves you time and helps you to get the information you want quickly after it was published.

RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Many people describe it as a ‘news feed’ that you subscribe to.

I find the ‘subscription’ description helpful. It’s like subscribing to a magazine that is delivered to you periodically but instead of it coming in your physical mail box each month when the magazine is published it is delivered to your ‘RSS Reader’ every time your favorite website updates.

How to Use RSS

There are many feed readers going around with a variety of approaches and features –

Find Some Feeds to Subscribe to – there are two places to look for a site’s feed:

On the Site
In Your Browser

Browser Subscription

Many internet browsers now have the ability to find and subscribe to RSS feeds built right into them.

When you surf to a site you can usually tell if it has an RSS feed by looking in the right hand side of address bar where you type in the site’s URL.

Here’s how it looks for Hunor Networking when you’re using Firefox:

Using Safari Browser it is a Reader icon:

Other modern browsers will have similar icons.

To quickly and easily subscribe by clicking these icons you’ll want to set up your browser to do it with your feed reader of choice.

Once you’ve done this and have subscribed to a few feeds you’ll begin to see unread items in your Feed Reader and you can start reading.

Don’t want to Use an RSS Reader? Email is an Option

Many sites also enable you to subscribe to RSS feeds via a more familiar medium – Email (Mac Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook etc.) On the right hand sidebar there is a field where you can enter your email address and get a daily email with a summary of the latest posts.

At Hunor Networking, you can subscribe/unsubscribe at any time, most importantly your email will be kept private and not used for any other purposes than to send these daily updates.

Selecting A Payment Provider: PayPal® and Authorize.net®

Hunor Networking LLC — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:37:23 +0000

The Basics To Selecting A Payment Provider

Online payment processing is a complex topic. To help simplify it, I’ll focus on two payment processors my clients have had good success with: PayPal^® and Authorize.net^®

What You Need: To accept payments online, you need two things: a “payment gateway” and a “merchant account”. When a customer makes a purchase, the “payment gateway” handles the authorization – meaning it contacts the credit card issuer and makes sure the card is valid. If it’s good, the “payment gateway” will then charge the card, and deposit funds into the online store owner’s “merchant account”. Sometimes, the “payment gateway” and “merchant account” are two different companies; sometimes they are one in the same. The online store I work with (ECT) allows you to configure more than one payment processor, to give your customers a choice.

What It Will Cost: There are typically several fees involved in utilizing an online payment processor. Compare fees for different payment processors to see which is most beneficial for your small business. Here are a few examples of fees:

Fee Name and Description

One Time Set Up Fee

Monthly Fees

Per Transaction Fee – for each online transaction processed

Discount Rate % – percentage of each transaction

Using PayPal^® as Your Online Payment Processor

PayPal^® bundles it’s services and offers comprehensive online payment processing. They are a payment gateway and merchant account rolled into one. To accept payments online, you simply need to sign up for a PayPal^® business account. If you only need PayPal^® “Buy Now” buttons on your website, sign up for Website Payment Standard. If you have an online store, sign up for Website Payments Pro.

Use the referrer link below to sign up for a PayPal^® Business account:

Using Authorize.net^® as Your Online Payment Processor

Authorize.net^® is primarily a payment gateway, but since they were acquired by CyberSource, they also can provide merchant accounts.

Comparing PayPal^® and Authorize.net^®

Below is a brief comparision of PayPal^® and Authorize.net^® payment processing costs. Note the Authorize.net^® costs are shown for payment gateway and merchant accounts, for a fair comparision to PayPal^®‘s Website Payments Pro. (This information is only for reference and you should check each company for the latest info.)

Description	PayPal^® Website Payments Pro	Authorize.net^® Payment Gateway and Merchant Account
Set Up Fee	$0	$99
Monthly Fee	$30	$42.95 – $57.95
Per Transaction Fee	$0.30	$0.35
Discount Rate %	2.2% – 2.9%	2.19%
VISA/MC	Included	Included
American Express	Included	Separate Application
Discover Card	Included	Separate Application
eChecks	Included	Separate Application
Automatic Deposit	Complex	Simple
ECT Online Store	Fully Compatible	Fully Compatible
Ability To Collect Complete Customer Data	No, because PayPal Express Checkout is required.	Yes
Customer remains on your website for entire transaction.	Not always. If they want to use their PayPal account, they will leave your website and may not come back.	Yes

PayPal^® is a registered trademark of PayPal, Inc.
AUTHORIZE.NET and the Authorize.Net logo are trademarks of Lightbridge, Inc.

Google Revamps to Fight Cheaters

Hunor Networking LLC — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:44:06 +0000

Google Revamps to Fight Cheaters
By AMIR EFRATI

Google Inc., long considered the gold standard of Internet search, is changing the secret formula it uses to rank Web pages as it struggles to combat websites that have been able to game its system.

The Internet giant, which handles nearly two-thirds of the world’s Web searches, has been under fire recently over the quality of its results. Google said it changed its mathematical formula late Thursday in order to better weed out “low-quality” sites that offer users little value. Some such sites offer just enough content to appear in search results and lure users to pages loaded with advertisements.

Google has changed its search algorithm in an effort to filter out data from “content farms” in search results. Marcelo Prince, Jessica Vascellaro and Simon Constable discuss how this affect site rankings and revenues for businesses.

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Google generates billions of dollars from advertising linked to its search engine, whose influence as a front door to the world’s online content and commerce continues to grow by the year. Google’s power over the fortunes of so many other companies has made it a target of competitor complaints. It has also faced government investigations, including scrutiny by regulators in the U.S. and Europe.

The Silicon Valley company built its business on the strength of algorithms that yield speedy results. The company constantly refines those formulas, and sometimes takes manual action to penalize companies that it believes use tricks to artificially rise in search rankings. In recent weeks, it has cracked down on retailers J.C. Penney Co. and Overstock.com Inc.

Last month, Google acknowledged it “can and should do better” to beat back sites that “copy content from other websites” or provide information that is “just not very useful” but are ranked highly anyway.

“I’ve never seen Google be attacked on the relevancy of their results the way they have these past couple of months,” said Danny Sullivan, editor of a widely read blog about the field called Search Engine Land.

The debate about Google’s results was sparked by a recent blog post by Vivek Wadhwa, a former technology executive and a visiting scholar at the University of California-Berkeley. He wrote that his students had trouble finding basic information about the founders of start-up companies on Google.

“The problem is that content on the internet is growing exponentially and the vast majority of this content is spam,” or of little use, he wrote. “Google has become a jungle.”

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On Friday, Mr. Wadhwa said in an interview that he had previously “written Google off” but is now “optimistic they may well get this under control,” though it will take time to see whether there are improvements. “It’s not rocket science; they know who the bad guys are, they compensate the companies” by letting them post Google ads and share revenue, he said.

Google search engineer Amit Singhal said in an interview that the company added numerous “signals,” or factors it would incorporate into its algorithm. Among those signals are “how users interact with” a site.

It also used feedback from hundreds of people it regularly hires to evaluate changes. These “human raters” were asked to look at search results and decide whether they would give their credit card number to a site or follow its medical advice, Mr. Singhal said.

On Thursday night, Mr. Singhal and a colleague wrote in a blog post that most of the changes would be “so subtle that very few people notice them” but “it’s a big step in the right direction of helping people find ever higher quality in our results.”

About 12% of U.S.-based queries would be affected by the change, Google said, and the changes would expand to non-U.S. users in the near future.

Google didn’t give examples of Web pages that rose or dropped in its rankings for certain queries, setting off a wave of speculation by professionals whose job it is to help sites rise in Google’s results.

“It has to be that some sites will go up and some will go down,” the Google engineers wrote, adding that sites with original content “such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on” will move up.

Many sites rely on Web traffic from Google, and even a small drop in the rankings could have a large impact and potentially reduce revenue. On Friday some large content creators, such as HubPages.com and ChaCha.com, said they noticed significant changes to traffic for some of their pages.

Demand Media Inc., which recently went public and runs large content sites such as eHow.com and Answerbag.com, said “we haven’t seen a material net impact.”

Mr. Sullivan, the blogger, said an eHow page with what he characterized as “shallow” content previously appeared as the first Google search result when users searched “how to get pregnant fast.” Since Google’s change Thursday, the eHow page has dropped out of the top results.

Thursday’s move was an example of Google’s tremendous influence over the Web, which has drawn scrutiny from U.S. and overseas governments that have launched probes to see whether it is involved in anticompetitive behavior. More recently, some websites have complained that Google is placing links to its own services ahead of Google’s competitors.

Google says it acts in the best interest of users, and frustration by some sites is understandable.

“Google has an enormous amount of power to make or break businesses,” said Scott Jones, chief executive of ChaCha Search Inc., a question-and-answer site, who said he was seeing some negative effects from Thursday’s algorithm change, especially for Web pages on his site that have short, “bite-sized” content.

“It’s unfair, I think, that Google made some wide, paint-brush decisions here in their algorithm that didn’t take into account a site like ChaCha that does have unique content created at fairly high cost,” he said.

Paul Edmondson, chief executive of HubPages.com, which shares ad revenue with writers that publish Web content about a variety of topics from making scarves to Mexico’s Day of the Dead holiday, said it was too early to tell how his site, would fare under the changes.

Web traffic sent by Google to a HubPages article about nose piercing rose by 40% since yesterday, he said, while traffic to an article on “what happens if you abandon your home and let it foreclose” dropped by 80%.

Google said the effort that resulted in the latest search change has been underway for about a year. In order to learn which sites users find to be of poor quality, Google earlier this month began offering software for its Chrome browser that allows users to block sites from their search results if they deem them to be low quality.

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Once blocked, the sites won’t appear during future searches. Google on Thursday said that while it didn’t use data from the experiment to influence the changes it made to its algorithm, it found that the algorithm change covered 84% of the Internet sites that were the “most-blocked” by users.

One new competitor to Google, start-up search engine Blekko, relies on its users to weed out what they believe are poor sites in categories such as health, cars and personal finance.

“Overall Google has done a great job and there are very few cracks in the system,” said Seth Besmertnik, chief executive of Conductor Inc., a company that helps companies such as General Electric Co. and Federal Express rank highly on search engines. “But spammers are getting smarter and Google needs to keep getting smarter.”

Write to Amir Efrati at amir.efrati@wsj.com

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704150604576166390281747136.html#ixzz1FBMO3Kcg

How to avoid “Search Optimizer” scams?

Hunor Networking LLC — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:43:36 +0000

What is the legal way to increase your Google ranking?

http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/ has information how to input your site/business at Google, without paying a dime.

In order to fix Google errors visit:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/?hl=en

More info here:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=164734

Normally, when I get a “google search optimizer” email, I just delete, because it is a well known spam.

As an example, I searched for “MainstreetHost”, and I see that many have reported them to ComplaintsBoard, and Consumer Protection Agencies. See for example:

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/mainstreethost-c344570.html

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/mainstreethost-seo-service-c368818.html

My suspicion was also correct that they install codes that actually is not in your benefit, but to the contrary, helps your competitors (read the above links)!

The difference between MainstreetHost, that they have actually have a staff trained as a “used car salesman” to get the most out of each call (I assume their financial reward is based on that), on average people were scammed about $19.95:

http://www.statesboro.biz/News/194/WARNING-Main-Street-Host-Scamming-Statesboro-Ga-Businesses.aspx

http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/WWW-MAINSTREETHOST-C/mainstreethost-com-search-eng-bf2e6.htm

http://www.ripoffreport.com/Internet-Services/Mainstreet-Host/mainstreet-host-seo-at-it-s-wo-3xmem.htm

Here is the Beter Business Bureau report in one area (you can search for more):

http://www.bbb.org/upstate-new-york/business-reviews/internet-web-hosting/mainstreethost-com-in-buffalo-ny-30001289/

http://www.webproworld.com/webmaster-forum/threads/50720-Mainstreethost.com-Traffic-Power/page2

I would recommend to call the Credit Card company and dispute the transaction, if you have happened to fall for this scam, stating that they never delivered and the company is well known (even to you now) to scam, which is well documented (you can provide your Credit Card Co. the above links). Also, you should report them to BBB so others won’t fall for the same telemarketer. I noticed they have used other names in the past (Power Search, Search Power, etc.).

Google has a free webmasters tool, where you or I can simply enter each website address, and pages (see links above). Also, your business can be listed at many local chambers and directories you belong to. That is legitimate and Google won’t kick you off their search result.

Great investment to upgrade your site!

Hunor Networking LLC — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 06:59:30 +0000

Probably, you have heard of the most popular web content management software (CMS): “WordPress.” It is easy to use, manage and update; and, includes many new features: full standard compliance (W3C), lots of themes (thousands of free templates), spam protection, password protected posts, better text formatting – typographical niceties, blogs, just to name a few. Please see the features here: http://wordpress.org/about/features/ .

Although our innovative Instant Web Content (IWC) software predates most CMS used nowadays, we didn’t have the resources to market it. Now, due to cost consideration, we can not not develop it any further.

Many months agoe, we have installed WordPress our servers. It works great! Please see one of our first clients to use WordPress: Calvert Medicine http://calvertmedicine.com .

The cost of moving websites from an old architecture, even proprietary, static, etc., to WordPress can be minimal a expense, but a worthwhile investment!

Our goal is to ensure our clients can use all of the technologies available as they become available.

Reasons for Not Using Flash

Hunor Networking LLC — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:38:51 +0000

Do not design websites in flash!

Flash is not a tool for web design. Flash is amazing for games, movies, video players, animations, and other little web trinkets. But when it comes to using flash to design a website, flash is a major disappointment.

Flash is detrimental to SEO, navigation, usability, and the overall user experience. The content of the site will never be indexed by any search engine due to the fact that bots mostly ignore flash elements and cannot read the content on them and when it comes to SEO, content is king. Users have no back button, they cannot inspect elements, and if they are on a mobile or text-only browser, it is as if your site doesn’t even exist.

Here is a list of the top reasons to NOT use flash:

Flash is bad for search engines.
If you want your site to appear in a search engine, don’t use flash. Flash pages don’t get indexed properly by search engines due to the fact that the bots cannot read the content on the page. You might as well have a website that consists of a title and some meta tags and no content as far as the search engines are concerned. It doesn’t matter how pretty your site is and how fluid the animations are if no one will ever see it.

Flash pages can even be negative for search rankings. Search engines blacklist sites that have meta content that is not related to the site (for example, a page on design with keywords about comedy videos). And sites that are made with flash, as far as the search engines are concerned, have keywords, but no content, which may result in blacklisting due to the fact that any keyword is irrelevant to non-existent content.
Non-specific page urls
The pages of flash sites all have the exact same url (http://reallybadsite.com/flash.swf). No matter which page on the flash site you are on, it is always flash.swf. On regular websites, users can link and bookmark specific pages. No one wants to bookmark a website and then write a note to themselves that to get to the page they like they need to go to a flash page and then navigate to a specific area on that. Likewise, if a user likes a page and wants to share it with others, it is much easier for them to link to a page instead of linking to a flash app and having to tell everyone they share with how to navigate to the part they like.
No back button
The user was on a page that they liked, clicked a link to go to a sub page, decided they didn’t want to be there and want to go back, they click the back button, and they go back. That is how it works on an HTML based website. How does it work on a flash website? Well the user can either try to figure out how the designer wants to allow them to go back, or they can reload the page and start from the beginning. But are bad options.
Poor design
Flash pages result in gratuitous design abuse. The internet has a standard. Navigation on the left or top, content in the middle, footer information on the bottom. It is a standard. Why bother trying to reinvent the user experience? Most users will get annoyed and older users will just give up and leave. If you want people to enjoy their stay at your site, show them what they expect to see.
Users have to wait for content
Unlike normal HTML websites wherein content appears as it is downloaded, flash pages have to download EVERYTHING before anything is showed. I don’t mind waiting for a loading bar for games, or tools, but when it comes to web pages, content should not be delayed.
Splash pages
There was a time long ago, even before the days of flash when HTML websites were starting to use splash or intro pages. This was one of the worst web design aspects ever and thankfully had nearly become extinct… Until flash came around. Flash saw the rebirth of the splash page and a step backwards in web design and usability. Users visit websites for the content, not for the 45 seconds of swirling logos. The “skip intro” button is helpful, but why make users take another step before viewing your content?
Failure of basic text functions
Users aren’t able to use basic internet text functions such as copy & paste, find (ctrl f), or text size changing (ctrl +/-). Users are forced to re-type any content that they wish to produce, so if a page has content that is worthy of being shared, there is little chance anyone will re-type it. Users cannot use Ctrl F to find parts of a page and therefore quality content is likely to go unseen. And users with disabilities are left in the dark, those with poor vision cannot enlarge the text and users that have to use on-screen readers are completely ignored.
Poor usability
Internet users are used to the standard web functions.
- Clicking on a link marks the link as visited and takes you immediately to the page
- Scroll bars act like the standard scroll bar on every other application
- Buttons look like buttons, forms look like forms, different cursers indicate different things (loading, text input, click able content)
- Navigation is at the top or left
- Et Cetera, there are many more standards
But more often than not, flash pages ignore these standards. Flash developers try to invent their own navigation methods, links are just areas you click on and don’t offer any clues that you have been there before, nor can you hover over a link to see where it will take you. Scroll bars invented over the weekend are made to replace the custom widget that has been in use for years and years. Web standards provide a better user experience than what most flash pages offer.
Source code is invisible
One of the most brilliant things about the internet is the ability for people to learn from each other. When learning about programming and HTML, new users can examine the code of existing pages to figure out HTML basics. Flash gets rid of this. Share and share alike is one of the best parts of the internet, why try and take that away?
Bandwidth and CPU issues
Flash bogs down older computers and takes forever to fetch on slow to medium internet connections. This returns to the fact that if it takes too long to load, users will leave and if it runs slowly on the users computer, they will get annoyed and leave.

Flash isn’t evil. It is a wonderful tool for designing widgets and games, and it is great for animations. The best video and audio players are flash. But it is not appropriate for websites.

Designers should always ask themselves if what they want to do could be achieved in HTML instead of flash. 99% of the time, the answer to this question is yes. The other 1% of the time, the developers should ask themselves if it is worth all of the faults listed above to do what they want, or if they would be better off changing their design to something else.

I will leave you with one last idea. The company that makes and distributes flash, macromedia, does not have a flash based website. Wonder why that is?