I’ve doing a “regular” flash-based website, which I haven’t done in a while since pretty much all of my work for the last year has been Flex. I’ve heard a lot about Gaia so I decided to implement it on this project, and I have to say, I am really impressed. There’s a small learning curve, and that’s just to get used to the ‘Gaia flow‘, which basically everything revolves around individual site sections that transition and out. Once you pick that up (and that happened pretty quickly) you see the beauty of it.

The thing that I think I appreciate about Gaia so far is that it has the capability to let you do really cool, complicated stuff, but you wouldn’t know it unless you needed it. Otherwise, it stays somewhere off in the distance ready to be called upon when you need it.

Oh yeah, and it takes care of deep linking and SEO for you as a bonus. Oh yeah part 2, it also throws in right-click menu site navigation, if you’d like.

If you’re developing flash sites, you need to look into this. To not would be a foolish waste of your time.