I was feeling sick a few days ago and consequently decided to do my usual trawl through the various RSS feeds I look at. I eventually ended up looking at the Razorfish site (they came up because the company has just been bought by Microsoft). Razorfish was one of the big players in web design maybe 10 years ago, and still are I suppose, although I hadn’t seen anything by them for a long time.

Anyway, I was looking at their folio and noticed they had a site listed as a Communication Arts site of the week (it was Red Bull). So I went to look at the CommArts site, and their site of the week lists. And almost everything I saw listed there was Flash.

Now I don’t mind Flash, but I am not a fan of the 100% flash site. I fall squarely on the standards side of that fence. So why is it that so many of these “site of the day” kind of sites continue to feature them? I was annoyed when I first started building sites that web design books were always full of sites that actually looked better in print than they were when you tried to use them. They looked good and didn’t work – kind of like Myspace in reverse.