Curiosity

[RightPros]

I dont personaly know and my boss is too busy to answer my sill questions, but is it hard to make flash websites, or ones like they have for chick-a-filet

[Desmond]

In one word, yes. I've been working with flash since 1999 and I still feel like there's a ton of stuff I don't know.

Studying from a book, you can learn how to create a basic flash file in about a week. But to learn how to upload it, optimize it and to make it into an attractive and useful site... Well, that takes years.

I suggest going to TemplateMonster and looking at some of their flash templates. They're about $50 and your can download and customize them. (They are the best template site on the web today. Their stuff is absolutely unbelieveably great.) Be warned though that even with a premade template, the learning curve is really, really huge. If you do go for it, expect serously hard core studying to be done.

Good luck:D

[rainier]

it's really hard to optimized a site with flash and it getting hard to crawl by the spiderweb.

[jamesww]

Before you spend alot of time on learning flash. Remember that most web surfers dont really care wheather you have this stuff on your page or not. That makes it a poor use of your time to learn this stuff. Unless you are a web developer trying to bag big corporate clients looking for ego sites.

[HHI Golf Guy]

As software goes, Adobe Flash is very expensive and there is a very large learning curve. Depending upon what you want done in Flash, it may make sense to hire a developer for your Flash needs.

Swish (http://www.swishzone.com/index.php) is a nice, lightweight alternative that also allows you to create Flash presentations. It's $150 price tag is also considerable lower than the $700 it costs for Adobe Flash.