What type of a site do you expect people to make, A box with words in it! I'm sorry but nowadays we use images when it enhances the style, and rounded corners, enhances the style.

P.S. almost all businesses have flash, because half of the freaking internet(Including the parts where they ARE supposed to be) wouldn't work without it.

I am just sick of rounded corners. They are getting very stale. Why not triangles or hexagons?

The people who do not have flash yet are the ones who work for universities or companies that have a policy of not allowing any software on their systems with one or more of the following detributes:

1. It is not essential software, and the company would have to pay for its use in a business setting.

2. All software must be tested and approved by the IT department for security purposes before it will be allowed on the computers. The IT department has a 3-year backlog of requests.

3. The software might be used to tie up internet bandwidth or waste employee time (flash definitely qualifies here).

4. The software does not meet the standards for a government security clearance.

5. The IT department decided to standardize on competing software.

Only #3 applies and if you intend for your employees to do their jobs Flash is very necessary so they might just want to make one little exception

I think I'm going to go with CCubes suggestion about resolution based screening. I'm a service and consulting operation so a lot of my clients are forced to look up my information by blackberry or safe mode. This solution properly covers both scenarios.

I'm not telling you what I think a business should do. I am telling what I am encountering in the real world.

1. It is not essential software, and the company would have to pay for its use in a business setting.

Many small businesses do not have the budgets to pay for lots of software. Remember that business use of software is often charged for, while consumer use is not.

2. All software must be tested and approved by the IT department for security purposes before it will be allowed on the computers. The IT department has a 3-year backlog of requests.

This is a common LEGAL LIABILITY problem at a college, brought on by the liabilities incurred if a cracker takes over a college-owned computer and uses it to invade other computers. I was there when this happened at a well-known university. All of the computers on one network were infected.

3. The software might be used to tie up internet bandwidth or waste employee time (flash definitely qualifies here).

This is a common problem everywhere, especially when a large number of computers shares a network connection.

4. The software does not meet the standards for a government security clearance.

This is the same as the college problem, except that the software must be tested even more thoroughly. Remember that government employees must order products too.

5. The IT department decided to standardize on competing software.

Employees are often not allowed to install software, or to decide what software will be used. The decision is left by the boss to one IT manager. If he doesn't like a particular piece of software, he won't allow it.

Adding a few more:

6. The business can't afford to upgrade to the latest version of Windows, and the software won't work on the old version. I know of more businesses that are not running XP or Vista than businesses that are using them. I know of two businesses still using MS-DOS and Lynx, and several that are using Windows 98, ME, or 2000.

7. The software in question causes conflicts with proprietary software used by all locations of the business. Examples are database systems that share data across various franchise locations.

8. The hard disk is too full to add the software, and there is no budget to add another.

9. The software base is on a remote computer, or on a CD-ROM.

Rounded corners increase download time and space.

Mid and CCube...

Just let it go guys, If you want to start a thread about trends in webdesign start it, don't hijack this one for no good reason.

*straight at mid* come on, I (and most anybody who knows anything about webdesign) will agree that pages are too flashy and bloated but you're getting a little too utilitarian here. If you don't want rounded corners don't use them, and if a page looks good without them that's great, but some color-shcemes and even content types just look tacky without a little extra work on teh asthetics.