When you hear that Adobe – the maker of flash has come out with a HTML5 builder program – you should know the end is here. Geocities… Netscape… and now Flash. All memorable relics in the history of the web.

I began abandoning Flash when I started learning about search engine optimization and how to help my clients get traffic to their website. I quickly realized that Flash was not helping to communicate to search engines. Especially the clients who had full flash websites with either an “enter here” or “skip into” links – exclaiming the irrelevance of their slash page.

So then, we only used Flash sparingly, for things like rotating banners and video. Sometimes for image galleries and other times for fancy navigation menus.

But CSS navigation menus became or effective and jQuery came around… With tools like SlideDeck for creating large image sliders easily and efficiently without using flash and easily embedding into WordPress. Where else would you need Flash?

Lastly, there was Apple deciding to not allow flash to play iPhones or iPads. “Ding”. Game over.

So now, what is HTML 5 how to and why use it?

Yeah, that’s what I’m trying to learn myself.

We can get along pretty well sticking with basic HTML and CSS. However, to give users a memorable experience – we’re looking to what exactly we can accomplish with HTML5.

Stay tuned for more on this later.

- Arvell Craig