I don’t get it. Most of the navigation on these sites are confusing or non-existent. If I was looking for something I would leave in seconds and go elsewhere. May be interesting if I was bored and stumbling around. Thats about it.

creaktif.com and 2advanced.com are my favorite sites.

Great works…

Amazing websites! Thanks for the examples.

How much money/investment do you think went into making these?

As a web designer, I would be interested in anyones thoughts as to what sort of budgets these sort of sites might demand?

Given the countless hours put in to building them, not to mention the creativity and planning, does anyone think we are talking 50-100K or more?

Thanks,

Peter.

Considering only one of them loaded in less than 30 seconds. I only had the patience to look at one site. That was the HBO one. While that one was interesting, the hook was so obscur that I got bored and left.

Flash sites hamper usability, are slow to use, take too much time to develop and rely on 3rd party non-standards compliant technologies.

CSS / XHTML for the win.

Peter,

Yes, I would certainly guess, if you took all costs into account, we’d be talking 50 – 100K easily. But you have to remember with companies like 2 Advanced, they have developers on staff that are paid for by contracts with other companies (Ford, Motorola, etc.) The development of that site, for them, was probably more of a ‘soft cost’.

Most of these sites could be just as appealing without making the entire thing in flash. The turbo chef one was my favorite but could easily be done without flash (besides the video), the rest relied too much on transitions and animations to add to the design, not the design itself. CSS / XHTML definitely for the win.

Greatness. It’s great to see a small grop of sites that make you rethink how you should think. I believe “I don’t get it” is the point.

Some really inspiring techniques, but I agree with Hulk that in most cases the IA is too difficult! Fine for a first time visit when you might be inclined to explore — they certainly all invite ‘clicking around’, but thereafter I found it irritating.

Still, some great effects that I think could work really well when used in moderation in conjunction with a decent IA and CSS/XHTML based template.

They are all amazing!

Some of these websites were good. Some were fun. But mostly the good ones were the fun ones.

What makes the boring sites the “best flash website” apart from design? After all, design isn’t everything…

I thought the first on the list was very good, but most of the rest, though visually appealing, had very little practical value either because of difficult navigation or lack of content.

i just came across http://www.21bet.com and i really like it, does anyone know what programs they used to make this site, is it flash, and how much would it cost to make a site like this? i am actually in the pet food business but i would like to make a site of similar quality.
thanks

My moto is “Shall use flash if html/css/javascript cant”…. 3 reasons

1. Makes it a hell of a lot more harder to maintain, upgrade and understand by anyone else
2. SEO and accessibility usually suffers due to the closed nature.
3. Usually very slow and can limit the users who may see the website, especially those accessing by mobiles or very old computers (yes there are still people who do).

Please give me a any tutorial which is disign in flash and developed with php

check out my flash site!

Hey bro nice website I want to know how did u design it?