Recently, i've noticed a decrease in the number of full websites being made with flash.

Although flash elements are still prominate, do you think that full websites being made with flash are a thing of the past?

Yep, and I seriously hope so.
Nothing more irritating than the back button getting you out of the site, when you just want to get back to the previous page....

I hope so too. I'm sure there will still be some new sites made in flash, but I think most people will come to their senses and start using flash for graphics, nof for complete sites.

I hope so too, i think things such as banners, adverts etc will remain flash but fully flash site i belive are a thing of the past.

For a business site flash is practically a death sentence. I have been on flash sites before with the intention of buying something, but when i clicked the "buy this" button nothing happened because i was using an older version of flash that the designers didn't take into account. That was a sale they had lost, And im betting it wasn't the only sale they had lost because of it.

I hope so.

Creating sites fully in flash can also kill you in the search engines as they can index only text/html pages at the moment.

Yea – I’m not a fan, I think flash sites are nice to people who have never seen them, but not ones who actually need to go to a site to get information. – I do wonder – what will be used for most sites in the future? As I am new to web design and other that html all I have really fooled around with is css.

As much as I hate to say it, no. All-Flash sites will never die.

The reason is that the legion of Macrowhores who believe that Macromediadobe products are the greatest thing since Star Wars from a futuristic point of view firmly believe that their "cutting edge" development will translate into millions in sales and legions of fans of their work.

It's a lot like pyramid schemes and bad SEO advice that way: people with a clue know it's wrong, but there will always be that idiot base that believes the hype.