Yet another client, when discussing a brief has stated:

"Oh, and we want some flash on it"

When I asked them why, they replied that their competitors had flash on their site. Upon investigation, their competitors had a naff flash intro (yack!). I then had to tell them the pros and the cons of flash (especially flash intros (yack!). It took a good half hour to convince them that for their purposes, flash was not the best tool to use and didn't actually have to be used at all (its a very corporate looking site).

So please people, stop flashing for the sake of it, we know most people have the plugin and that's not really a worry but for an information based site, flash is not the best or fastest tool. Take into consideration search engine submission, file sizes, functionality etc but don't use flash because you know how to, use it because its needed. When its not needed, use a tool that is.

I thankyou, rant over.....