How to Create a Splash Page for Your Website?
Posted: Tuesday, December 27, 2005
by netgeek06
http://www.digitallabz.com
Whenever we go surfing on the internet, we find many websites interesting enough for us to read. In addition to these websites, we can find many pages called splash pages on the internet. Splash pages are introductory pages to a web site. It generally offers some of these features to the viewer a graphic or a logo design, a choice of entering the site through either a flash design or a design with no flash and sometimes even technical requirements like about the browser, version, etc. needed for that specific site. A splash page is also known as a main entry page housing a graphic image and link for visitors to enter a web site.
There are quite a few advantages and disadvantages to a splash page. The main advantage of a splash page is that through a splash page, one can get all the information required on the first page of the website without much scrolling as splash pages are fast loading. And just think, after all that effort put into the making of that animation or flash splash page design, you can be confident that through a splash page, the visitors of the site at least see the splash design at least once. Splash pages are a great way to show off the best work you can produce, and thus also act as a portfolio of your work and work capacity for potential employers. As the splash page states the technical requirements required for their particular website, it allows the reader to choose, prior to visiting the site, the technology that best fits them and their computers. It is also a great means of using your server logs to get the complete breakdown of the actual number of customers to the website.
The cons to splash pages are not that many or major. It is only that some readers do not like splash pages as it prevents them from entering the website immediately, and thus may leave the site upon seeing the splash page. Splash pages also tend to break search engines as most splash pages have a redirect. It should be remembered that splash pages cannot be used for sending emails to a third party. As it can be seen, the pros of a splash page heavily outweigh the cons of a splash page. It all lies down on how one accepts a splash page on seeing it! Remember, splash pages are fun to build. They are very creative and allow the user to play around with animation and sound, to get the desired splash page design they need!
This article was written by Thomson Chemmanoor a Website optimization expert and webmaster who operates a website design company Digital Labz. If you want to read more about this splash page and Splash Web page articles visit our website You can republish the submitted articles without changing the content and the bio box.
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More commentsTHIS ARITCLE SUCKS!!! It's titled How to Create a Splash Page... I read begining to end and nevr mentions a hint of any type ofcode about building a splah page!!!i totally agree! i didnt even learn how to make a spalh page
I agree..Where is the title of the page ever answered? It should be titled - "How to Not Answer the Topic."
agreed... it does not answer the question How to Create a Splash Page for Your Website?Actually, "How to Create a Splash Page for Your Website" is a comment, NOT a question. Therefore, it should not even contain a question mark! Sorry, I didn't read the article. I couldn't get past that.
No answer, this doesnt help at all..
I think the public comments are excellent!
To the Author, the article was helpful in that it helped shed some light on what exactly a splash page is, and what it is used for. However, unless I missed something, (such as, another page or the like...) the title of this article is very misleading because it implies that you are instructing the readers on how to add one for their sites, when it all actuallity, you are just telling them what it is.
That said, I thought that the article was pretty informative.
The article was interesting to read, but the subject header was misleading to say the least. The title should have to do with the pros and cons of a splash page, not how to create a splash page.
i think that a splash page would be very helpfull to the website creators out there but no site ive been on explains how to make 1
i want to learn more about designing splash page pls.
Yeah, where's the instruction on how to create a splash page??? All I read was the pros/cons and some explanations...but no instructions.
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