It took my DSL over a minute, too. If it weren't for the fact that Eo recommended the site, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have waited for it to load. It's a lot of time to invest when you don't know what your time will be buying, and most searchers online seem to be in a hurry and will click out rather than wait for a lengthy Flash presentation to load. (A very brief Flash intro with an option to skip it could be another thing, however.)
Sites like this are very useful as online galleries that your friend can direct people to so they can see her art. However, if she's interested in having her art discovered online, the all-Flash format is going to really kill her. Search engine spiders can't read it (go to http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html and insert her URL in the little box to see what a search engine spider will see on any of her pages.) What this means is that she'll never come up in search results on an engine (not even on page 100.)
She needs keyword-rich text for the spiders to read (on non-Flash pages) so they can tell what her site is about. Some of this can be accomplished through alt-tags and careful wording of title tags (right now it just has her name in the title tag; if it said 'artist' or 'San Francisco artist' or 'Bay Area artist', then her name, that could be useful to searchers looking for art online.)
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Date: 2004-02-07 12:45 pm (UTC)Sites like this are very useful as online galleries that your friend can direct people to so they can see her art. However, if she's interested in having her art discovered online, the all-Flash format is going to really kill her. Search engine spiders can't read it (go to http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html and insert her URL in the little box to see what a search engine spider will see on any of her pages.) What this means is that she'll never come up in search results on an engine (not even on page 100.)
She needs keyword-rich text for the spiders to read (on non-Flash pages) so they can tell what her site is about. Some of this can be accomplished through alt-tags and careful wording of title tags (right now it just has her name in the title tag; if it said 'artist' or 'San Francisco artist' or 'Bay Area artist', then her name, that could be useful to searchers looking for art online.)