So the gallery’s website is entirely done in Flash. What this means is that the people we have hired to give the site a basic scrub, they cannot make any changes without all of the original files. Voluminous to say the least. I tried to put the files together thinking I could burn a disc or email a ton of these files over but the new web perosn delivers the bad news: None of this flash is indexed by search engines!
Exsqueeze me?
The site has been up three years. I typed in the name of a featured artist and the gallery name – a few sites came up, but none of them was the gallery’s own site.
Do we build a new site from scratch? Dig deep for all the .fla files and maintain the Flash site as it has been programmed with my changes to the gallery’s program, knowing full well that none of it is searchable?
Either way, any or all of this will cost, of course. It can be simply maddening. I had other plans for the workday – a whole afternoon can slip away from you if you are not careful.