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Integrating splash page on a site

  • 24-09-2009 10:29PM
    #1
    grizzly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭


    I've got this code that I'd like to use for a splash page. I like that I can use this instead of flash and that I can keep the code in my index.html page (not having to use two separate pages). I'm very green to web design, but I am learning lots by stumbling about :/
    head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script>
function SplashBeGone() {
  document.getElementById('splash').style.display = 'none';
}
function Init() {
  document.getElementById('splash').style.display = 'block';
  setTimeout(function(){ SplashBeGone(); }, 8000);
}
window.onload = Init;  
</script>

<style type="text/css">
#splash {
 position: absolute;
 display: none;
 top: 0; left: 0;
 width: 100%;
 height: 100%;
 text-align: center;
 background: #ff0;
 opacity: .8;
}
</style>
</head>

<body>
Site
<div id="splash">
  <p>splash</p>
  <p><a href="#" onclick="SplashBeGone(); return false;">skip</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

    However, when I try and place it into my existing code it fails. Here's the code I have to work with. (There's alot of it to work the menus). If I take the onLoad= out from my <body> tag it works again, so I'm guessing there a conflict there.
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome</title>
<meta name="description" content="SNIP">
<meta name="keywords" content="SNIP">
<meta name="robots" content="all">
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
<meta name="language" content="English">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function mmLoadMenus() {
  if (window.mm_menu_0515130918_0) return;
        window.mm_menu_0515130918_0 = new Menu("root",103,18,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#CC0000","#990000","#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","left","middle",3,0,500,-5,7,true,true,true,12,true,true);  mm_menu_0515130918_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0515130918_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0515130918_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
   mm_menu_0515130918_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0515130918_0.bgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515130918_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0515130918_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515130918_0.menuBorderBgColor='#FFFFFF';
window.mm_menu_0515131415_0 = new Menu("root",174,18,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#CC0000","#990000","#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","left","middle",3,0,500,-5,7,true,true,true,12,true,true);
  mm_menu_0515131415_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");  mm_menu_0515131415_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0515131415_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
   mm_menu_0515131415_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0515131415_0.bgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515131415_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0515131415_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515131415_0.menuBorderBgColor='#FFFFFF';
window.mm_menu_0515131628_0 = new Menu("root",156,18,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#CC0000","#990000","#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","left","middle",3,0,500,-5,7,true,true,true,12,true,true);  mm_menu_0515131628_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0515131628_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
   mm_menu_0515131628_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0515131628_0.bgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515131628_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0515131628_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515131628_0.menuBorderBgColor='#FFFFFF';
    window.mm_menu_0515132019_0 = new Menu("root",143,18,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#CC0000","#990000","#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","left","middle",3,0,500,-5,7,true,true,true,12,true,true);
  mm_menu_0515132019_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0515132019_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0515132019_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0515132019_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");
   mm_menu_0515132019_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0515132019_0.bgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515132019_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0515132019_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515132019_0.menuBorderBgColor='#FFFFFF';          window.mm_menu_0515133506_0 = new Menu("root",125,18,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#CC0000","#990000","#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","left","middle",3,0,500,-5,7,true,true,true,12,true,true);
  mm_menu_0515133506_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='SNIP'");    mm_menu_0515133506_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","MM_openBrWindow('SNIP')");
mm_menu_0515133506_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0515133506_0.bgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515133506_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0515133506_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0515133506_0.menuBorderBgColor='#FFFFFF';    window.mm_menu_0827101329_0 = new Menu("root",104,18,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#CC0000","#990000","#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","left","middle",3,0,500,-5,7,true,true,true,12,true,true);
  mm_menu_0827101329_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='html/SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0827101329_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='html/SNIP'");
  mm_menu_0827101329_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","location='html/SNIP'");
   mm_menu_0827101329_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0827101329_0.bgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0827101329_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0827101329_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0827101329_0.menuBorderBgColor='#FFFFFF';                  window.mm_menu_0506113122_0 = new Menu("root",109,18,"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif",12,"#CC0000","#990000","#FFFFFF","#FFFFFF","left","middle",3,0,500,-5,7,true,true,true,12,true,true);
  mm_menu_0506113122_0.addMenuItem("SNIP","window.open('http://SNIP', '_blank');");
   mm_menu_0506113122_0.hideOnMouseOut=true;
   mm_menu_0506113122_0.bgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0506113122_0.menuBorder=1;
   mm_menu_0506113122_0.menuLiteBgColor='#FFFFFF';
   mm_menu_0506113122_0.menuBorderBgColor='#FFFFFF';

mm_menu_0506113122_0.writeMenus();
} // mmLoadMenus()

function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}

function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
  window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}
//-->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="html/mm_menu.js"></script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#CCCCCC" background="images/centra_template/background_tile.gif" link="#FFFFFF" vlink="#FFFFFF" alink="#FFFFFF" onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/SNIP.gif')">
The rest of the site
</body>


Comments

  • #2
    daymobrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,680 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    Don't use a splash page. Most people hate them - it is an unnecessary wait for the splash page stuff to load and an extra click to get past the darn thing.


  • #3
    tombull82
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 910 ✭✭✭tombull82


    daymobrew wrote: »
    Don't use a splash page. Most people hate them - it is an unnecessary wait for the splash page stuff to load and an extra click to get past the darn thing.

    +1... hate them:mad:


  • #4
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    +1 here as well; plus, if your site is working properly in search engines, most people won't even see it.


  • #5
    the Guru
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭the Guru


    grizzly, I agree with the others posters 100% -- “DO NOT USE A SPLASH PAGE EVER" as an intro to a site. Most experienced web users hate them, and will refuse to click through / skip the presentation to visit your site.

    However, here is a good article for you to read on the subject.

    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/11/splash-pages-do-we-really-need-them/


  • #6
    grizzly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,789 ✭✭✭grizzly


    Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately I've no say in the matter – client wants it and won't hear otherwise.


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