Selling a flash site
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- monolith0
yes.. the point is that HTML is good for sites that are really full of information and require a lot of reading and organizing text (like news sites, magazines, e-commerce sites etc etc) with visuals that are mostly static where you can get away with some JQuery here and there if you need some basic and limited animation or effects like fade in and out and slides.
But if you are building a brand experience, more complex animations, special effects and stuff like that, like others have said, then you go Flash.
If it's latter, then you show comps and say that if they need the site to stand out, to be creative without conforming to a specific way of doing it, with complete control over layout, fonts etc you build the desktop site in Flash and then you just take your Flash site and you optimize it to fit 1024x768 (btw the key here is that when you build it for a desktop you already make it fit 1024x768 to save time), and you just do additional build with some slight optimization in code and you publish native app through AIR and you tell them that you can basically export the same experience to Android and Blackberry.
If they really want to have a site for IPad, you just charge them extra for iOS optimized version of the site that will be kind of a fallback and simplified and more static version of the whole experience people on desktops can enjoy. That other version doesn't have to suck but the reality is that any animations with HTML5 on iOS (even iPad2) are just awful. They are slow and replicating the full experience you can do in flash is fool's errand.
Honestly, this is how people should build sites. You take advantage of BEST quality a platform can give you. While on mobile, the best quality is native apps, on desktop, for immersive experiences it's flash, if the site is one of the informational ones I mentioned above, you just do it all in HTML.
Either way as vaxorcist says, just make money bro. Sell both versions. It's a great time to do this work because the market is so young and great that you can make a lot of money doing it now. Flash, HTML/JS/CSS, or native, doesn't matter.