I built my site with Frontpage 2000..and it's doubling traffic every year since I launched 3 1/2 years ago...probably the web designers here consider FP lame...anyway...

It seems like sites are generally getting richer graphics...and I assume sites in the future will get faster and more robust.

Does the consensus here think graphics of websites of the future will rival those on T.V.?

Someday I'd like to impliment the kind of graphics you see on Monday night football...with all that "coming right at you" fast and colorful graphics...but I assume I'll have to get dreamweaver or something different than FP2000
-Chip

You can already do websites like that, but they require either video or Flash. Most probably Dreamweaver would not be the tool that you use to create such a site.

Thanks Virt. As I understand it, "Flash" is a code, the way HTML is a code...would that be true? Are Flash and Java both codes?..and are they competitors? -Chip

I think Frontpage 2000 is a very old program now. It can't support some of modern web design feautures. Try to use Dreamviewer.

Originally Posted by Chipster

Thanks Virt. As I understand it, "Flash" is a code, the way HTML is a code...would that be true? Are Flash and Java both codes?..and are they competitors? -Chip

Flash is not a code, it is a technology. Actionscript is a programming language that is used inside of Flash. Java is the flagship language of Sun Microsystems. The two technologies are not really competitors, since one is a media driven, action based technology (Flash), and one is a heavy duty programming language (Java).

Then again, you could mean JavaScript. JavaScript is not Java. JavaScript is the programming language of browsers. It can't play music or videos like Flash can, but many of the animations that are done with Flash can be done with JavaScript. The next generation of browsers (some are already out), are going to have JavaScript that is about 50 times faster than the previous generation, and will be able to handle frame rates in a similar way to Flash.

None of these languages are a code in the way HTML is a code. HTML is a markup and display language.

Originally Posted by andr112

I think Frontpage 2000 is a very old program now. It can't support some of modern web design feautures. Try to use Dreamviewer.

I still have my copy and seldom use it but MS has updated it more than once for licensed/registered users. So yes it is not on the cutting edge but it is about 10 times better than it was in 2000. Hmm 10 times 0 is still 0 isn't it.

Sorry. I had to be bad for a moment.

For the OP. I personally don't like flash sites. It is okay for an intro if you feel you must. Adding videos from various souces related to your topic is good. You can easily do that using notepad or even FP in html view.

Thank you all...especially Wayfarer07, that is one heck of a good clear explanation, and very helpful for me. -Chip

websites of the future...

i hope someday., someone will make a perfume design on which
you can really smell the fragrance...or a food site where you can
experience the taste of the featured meal...

just been wonderin...

I built my first site with Publisher 97 I think it was. The technology is redundant if you don't need it. So it depends what you want the site to do because loads of sites have a lot of peripheral BS that you just don't need.
Putting the same amount of time into the content of the site would most likely bring greater rewards.

He's right flash and video are available but they do slow the the website load time and not so good for SEO. But I would guess in the near future websites will rival TV in look and feel.

As other said, flash is a very good way to do this. But so are implementing some of the new Web 2.0 graphic designing techniques.

We as a web development company are starting to use these alot more on all our sites. Things like 3D icons and logos, and reflective logos to make them more appear as though they are coming toward you.

As the President and CEO of a web development company here in the United States, we believe in Web 2.0 and we believe that the whole web 2.0 is really a way to make sites more 3D and seem more realistic to the viewer as they are in the site and its not just a flat canvas they are looking at anymore and they are able to interact and feel the site alot more than what they used to be able to do.