Square Feet Studio

Here’s a website for what looks to be a very nice design company. They refit penthouses, do corporate re-designs. The usual multi-new-media-whatever-we-can-lay-our-hands-on outfit. They also have a website.

It’s done in Flash.

All of it.

With one or two exceptions, there’s nothing that couldn’t be done in standard HTML, or a bit of JavaScript. But, their new-media fetish got the better of them, and they wanted a snazzy website done in Flash. So, we get a website where you can’t cut text from, or copy images from (which might be important if you’re trying to convince someone that you should go with these guys), or increase the size of text for those with poor eyesite, or bookmark pages of interest.

Another bonus is if they want it changed, they have to go back to their designers. So the site is likely to be less up-to-date than they’d like it to be. Probably more expensive to maintain too.

Now, I have nothing against Flash. It’s a great tool. But it’s only a tool. As a web designer, I actively disuade clients from using technology unless it’s essential for the job. This website could have been developed just as effectively with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and been more usable and useful too.