For us, Flash has it’s place. It’s not a tool which we here at Imulus use with indiscretion. There certainly is an audience for fully Flash-based sites, those which cater to rich-media, highly-interactive content and animation. Examples include movie, music, educational and television based sites.

I personally get angered by sites which use Flash to achieve a certain “look” at the expense of usability. While I’m not going to attack any particular site, I think you all know what I’m talking about, and you’ve seen it before. I’m talking about sites which take over your browser and go fullscreen without your permission. Sites in which the navigation is so much of a artistic element that it no longer becomes obvious to the end user. In most cases, when I see sites which could have been built using AJAX rather then Flash I tend to think the agency was more concerned for awards then actually building a site which is functional and user-friendly.

That’s my two-cents.