Personal Pet Peeve

Personal Pet Peeve

April 4th, 2006 @ 1:50 pm by Mrs. Bee
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Why do so many high end wedding vendors use flash for their websites? Sure flash sites look cool and designers probably put a lot of work into them. But when you’re a bride, you depend on surfing, researching, and saving a crapload of images for ideas and inspiration. Flash often makes it hard or impossible to save images.

I do understand their copyrights if that’s what they’re concerned with. But they can add a logo or watermark or frame around images. People take stuff from weddingbee without crediting us, but I don’t really mind (unless it’s outright plagiarism).

My point is - I don’t care about the site looking super tricked out with flash effects. I’d rather the site be more functional for the user/bride. Personal Pet Peeve : wedding Winky No more flash websites please!

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8 Responses to “Personal Pet Peeve”

Guest

down with flash! i totally agree, it’s frustrating and generally flash sites are barely functional.

4/4/06 @ 2:03 pm (reply)

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Miss Ant

If I find a picture on a flash website that I really want to save, here’s what I do:

Take a screen shot, crop it, and save!

4/4/06 @ 2:05 pm (reply)

Bee

Mrs. Bee (message) 3,235 posts, Sugar bee

That’s what I usually do, but some sites change images as you move the mouse making it all complicated.

4/4/06 @ 2:08 pm (reply)

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Bella

According to my boyfriend, if you use Firefox for your internet browsing (and not Explorer), you can save them even if they are using Flash in their website.
I havent done it personaly but he sends me picture links from flash sites all the time… that is what he told me when I asked “How did you do that!?!?!”

4/4/06 @ 2:59 pm (reply)

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rm450

Amen! I hate having to wait for the Flash to load too!! When I have to go through a list of vendors, I get so impatient sometimes that I skip to the next site so they’re not really helping their cause either.

4/4/06 @ 3:35 pm (reply)

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isabella

love firefox.. it’s free download, try it!

4/4/06 @ 4:12 pm (reply)

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Kelly

i’ve spent hoooooooooourrrrs copying pictures off of flash sites, there’s always a trick, but the same ones dont always work on all websites. really annoying!

4/4/06 @ 9:01 pm (reply)

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Darlene

i agree! and the music that some sites play is annoying too, but those you can usually shut off.

4/5/06 @ 3:56 pm (reply)