I have been known to be antagonistic towards Macromedia Flash because of accessibility, load time and various other issues that are tied in with poor Flash design and implementation. However, Mars Hill Church Seattle has got a Flash site that I thought was just using DHTML. I think that if I had this to do my way I’d have used DHTML with XMLHTTP. However, this site is really, really usable and you can select, copy and work with the text as if it was just plain markup.

I love the navigation. It reminds me of the Apple Finder app’s Columns view. If you select one main section of the site you get sub-navigation in the next column over. I want to use this sort of design and layout in something some day. I’d love that sort of control 🙂 But I digress. All of the links load up near instantly because graphical elements have been minimized to increase load time. However, the look and clarity is not lost because they have good design style and maintain simplicity.

You should check it out and learn some things from it like I’m going to do.