I got this message from the CEO at eLounge - the e-book store entirely made in Flash that I posted about some time ago.
Now the site has been rewritten in good old html. I’m sure that eLounge will experience an increase in revenue almost immediately as the search engines are now able to see the site.
I still feel that the visual design is a bit confusing with too many details, but that’s beside the point. Now eLounge is a real website that may be accessed from search engines, bookmarked and deeplinked into, and we like that! Welcome to the web, eLounge.
Same thing apparently happened to the MTV site recently
http://www.uxmag.com/short-news/254/mtv-drops-flash-in-a-flash
http://www.mtvlabs.tv/2007/04/new-html-mtvcom.html
LOL! You are right! For the last 10 times I went online to purchase my monthly dosage of new books, I’ve been asking myself: Should I go for the cheapest, but NON-user friendly, Flash-cumbersome ELounge or should I go for the some of the more expensive, but user-friendly alternatives? I actually did some calculating on the value of my time versus the money saved on Elounge. So when I dared to go for eLounge yesterday I was SOOO happy to experience a faster, easier check-out! In future Elounge will be my first choice without Return on time-calculations! … oh, one thing is still annoying me: their “don’t buy too many books”-delivery concept. I want discount on buying a bunch of books! But anyway, thanks to eLounge from a book lover!
http://www.uxmag.com/short-news/254/mtv-drops-flash-in-a-flash
2 down… 1.000.000 to go!