Agency Byte

I’ve been wanting to blog this for nearly a month now but haven’t had time. This is big news. Adobe is now providing major search engines with an optimized version of the Flash player technology. Using this new technology, Google and Yahoo! can now read and index the text in .swf files.

Animations and other graphical elements will still be ignored, but text and hyperlinks will be indexed and spidered.

So, the long-running argument that sites cannot perform well in search engines when using Flash isn’t quite as strong now. Google claims to already be using this new technology and Yahoo! is planning to implement it soon.

The press release has basic information but I’m sure there will be more information released in the near future.

Things have been busy at Agency Fusion so I haven’t had much time for posting to Agency Byte. All of that busy-ness appears to be paying off, however. Agency Fusion was recently awarded Best of State in the web development category. We have a great team, great clients, and we love what we do so it’s “icing on the cake” to be receiving recognition for our efforts!

Visit the Best of State site.

This post is going to deviate a bit from the technical realm but I just read a report in the latest HOW Design magazine that was based on a recent survey of designers’ rates. One of the questions in the survey asked whether designers disclose their hourly rates to their clients.

The question, as written, seemed odd to me until I realized what they were getting at. This is how they should have asked the question: Do you bill your clients by the hour or do you provide a fixed-fee estimate?

I was disappointed to read that the majority of survey respondents bill hourly for their work.

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