Flash Websites

I paid $3000 for my website about 7 years ago, I have been told by the host that at the end of this year Flash based websites will no longer works on Chrome/safari/firefox etc and my website will need to be changed to HTML5 and would then be a monthly cost of between $20-$60, I have that Deja Vu feeling of Adobe, What are your thoughts on this, Having paid all that money on my website i am loathed to through it away and go subscription but if it wont work after 2017 i may be forced to rethink

Dave

Flash is on the way out, finally. Adobe has been doing nothing but patching security holes in it for years.

Check out my article here http://www.jeffcolburn.com/articles/how ... r-website/ to see several options for sites that charge a monthly fee and provide a shopping cart. And places where you can buy a shopping cart.

You could also use a free or paid Wordpress theme, then you would only pay normal hosting fees.

Have Fun,
Jeff

I dont want or need a shopping cart, Thanks for the time you have taken

Dave

Sounds like your talking about two different things. The $3000 cost you originally incurred sounds like a custom built site. Only cost after that would be the hosting. The Monthly fee sounds like a subscription based sight, something like Photo shelter, Art Store Fronts, Square Space, Sumgmug, or a number of others out there.
You can get a new custom built sight again from between $2,000 - $4,000. Or go with the subscription sites with much less customization. Sounds like you have been paying what works out to be around $35 per month for the last seven years. It is a difficult choice. Always seems much easier to pay a little at a time than one big fee. In my opinion custom built sites are head and shoulders above any of the other subscription based offerings out there today.

If by chance you are considering a new custom built site the only designer / web builder I would recommend is Wide Range Galleries.

Hi Brad
Yes i paid $3000 for a custom built web site which was flash based, The company (one of the big ones) are now saying i need a new non flash based website for the reasons above and it will now be a monthly payment

Thanks

Dave

That would be purely what the company you are dealing with are wanting to sell you. I would think you could shop around and find another vendor to build a site for you in any number of languages for a one off fee. I'm not clear on what the monthly cost would cover, there is a hosting charge of course but I thought that was generally a lower charge.

Is your current vendor not proposing a one off charge to code your site in the new language? Or are they proposing to do the conversion and recoup that charge with a monthly fee?, or charge for conversion AND a monthly fee? Do they provide any maintenance for the fee, what about adding new images do you do that yourself? I assume you don't pay monthly fees apart from hosting currently??

ChrisRoss wrote:That would be purely what the company you are dealing with are wanting to sell you.  I would think you could shop around and find another vendor to build a site for you in any number of languages for a one off fee.  I'm not clear on what the monthly cost would cover, there is a hosting charge of course but I thought that was generally a lower charge.

Is your current vendor not proposing  a one off charge to code your site in the new language? Or are they proposing to do the conversion and recoup that charge with a monthly fee?, or charge for conversion AND a monthly fee? Do they provide any maintenance for the fee, what about adding new images do you do that yourself?  I assume you don't pay monthly fees apart from hosting currently??

I currently pay $70 a year to host and thats the only charge, The new monthly charge which would probably be $60 would have the hosting built in, The site would be changed to HTML5 which is where the monthly fee come in, The site has an edit suite so you can update yourself and do minor site changes which i have on my site now, HTML5 allows bigger images on the site as well as better looking cell phone and tablet presentation

Dave

Did you know that if you are an Adobe CC subscriber you get a free website, I have just put mine up for critique as its work in progress and its not on the web URL where it should be (will be changed in the next few days) Its not my main Wildlife website but my everything else website

https://dave22b7.myportfolio.com/

Dave

Flash was made obsolete in 2014 by HTML5. The lack of support for Flash in iOS devices accelerated it's obsolescence. Why pay a monthly fee? I think biting the bullet and converting the site once and for all and be done with it. I don't understand how the conversion results in the initiation of a monthly cost that you didn't have before.

E.J. Peiker wrote:Flash was made obsolete in 2014 by HTML5.  The lack of support for Flash in iOS devices accelerated it's obsolescence.  Why pay a monthly fee?  I think biting the bullet and converting the site once and for all and be done with it. I don't understand how the conversion results in the initiation of a monthly cost that you didn't have before.

You're making the mistake of using logic to work out why someone would pay that sort of fee.  Logic doesn't get in the way of a good sales and marketing program

The difference between the hosting company and Adobe with their CC is there will be heaps of alternatives to being tied to paying $60 a month to get Flash converted.

E.J. Peiker wrote:Flash was made obsolete in 2014 by HTML5.  The lack of support for Flash in iOS devices accelerated it's obsolescence.  Why pay a monthly fee?  I think biting the bullet and converting the site once and for all and be done with it. I don't understand how the conversion results in the initiation of a monthly cost that you didn't have before.

I am a Adobe CC subscriber already so getting the website through them was basically free and the cheapest way of getting it sorted, I either would have to pay a chuck of money to get it converted or pay $20-40 a month through other companies

Dave