[thelist] The Evils of the Splash Page

[M. Hannan]

There are cases for a splash page.  preloading images, detecting 
browser/settings/etc., and scaring away people from your "pictures of me 
naked with light bulbs" page.  Or just cute little pictures of your 
toaster/waffle iron/cat.

If they want a splash page, give them a splash page, along with the 
statistic (which I don't know off hand) that you have x (15?) seconds to 
capture someone's interest before they hit the back button (don't tell them 
about back button disabling *g*).  If you've got to make one, make one, make 
it light and skippable.

m@


>From: "Mark Gregor" <mark at velir.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
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>Subject: RE: [thelist] The Evils of the Splash Page
>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 11:29:07 -0500
>
>
>Ooo, that's good...better than a written critique, but I'm afraid the 
>client may want *exactly* that.
>
>Mark
>
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> > Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:14 AM
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> > Subject: Re: [thelist] The Evils of the Splash Page
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> >
> >
> > Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers
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> > -------------------- Start of message text --------------------
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> > And this one is always good for those who think that
> > a Flash page is just tickety-boo:
> > http://www.skipintro.com/
> >
> > Cheers
> > Martin
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> >
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> > Subject:  Re: [thelist] The Evils of the Splash Page
> >
> >
> >
> > on 11/30/00 10:47 AM, Mark Gregor at mark at velir.com wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Does anyone have some good links to respected sources that
> > detail the evils of
> > > splash pages (additional required clicks, no content on the first 
>page,
> > > annoying for return visitors, etc.)?
> >
> >
> > Our very own aardvark wrote a fine article about splash pages available 
>on
> > the evolt.org site :
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> > http://www.evolt.org/index.cfm?menu=8&cid=416
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