designing a usable
website does not mean that you have to leave out all the fun stuff, like
Flash,
DHTML or similar. The (careful) use of new technologies can indeed make your site
more usable, eg. when using Flash to replace
raster graphics, when appropriate (of course, you'd still want to provide the image in a way
accessible to all). As with all design skills, you should know the rules and then carefully break them.
A usable site
IMHO adresses the following issues: