Enter pages

Neil_Sedaka

Is there any reason to have a "Click to enter" page on your site?

Thanks.

Cr8or

I supose its kinda like the front page of a news paper (they are trying to put an image across ... or something like that .... )

they have no real use but as i said i guess its all about image ...

PiE

Totally pointless in most cases, but since theyre usually quick-loading, it doesn't bother me much.

peterd

branding? eg. www.champion.ie

damnyanks

They are pointless, nothing like a front page on a newspaper (they have a purpose)

It's just a way of using flash in the wrong way and helps the whole "Flash smells" argument :rolleyes: (Which it does)

Cr8or

its all to do with branding i guess

Nietzschean

Originally posted by damnyanks
They are pointless, nothing like a front page on a newspaper (they have a purpose)

It's just a way of using flash in the wrong way and helps the whole "Flash smells" argument :rolleyes: (Which it does)

true true..........

whiteshadow

a lot of sites use the 'SPLASH' page for detecting plugins you can test for quicktime / flash or whatever in javascript or server side languages and send users to different locations depending on what.

also if you want to have 2 sites, one for flash and one for html so as not to enforce one on all your visiters.

Some sites use this as the homepage and have a lot of meta tags, many links and keywords planted all over them. I don't really know if there's a need for that..

but dont bother unless its gonna be multimedia heavy.
they're a bit of a no-go

mneylon

Or in other cases the client may insist on having one... in which case you've got to agree!