splash page (splash screen)
A splash page (or splash screen) is:
1) An initial Web site page
used to capture the user's attention for a short time as a promotion or lead-in to the site home page or to
tell the user what kind of browser
and other software they need to view the site.
To have the splash page automatically move to the home page after a specified delay, include the
HTML tag in the splash page as in this example with a 10-second delay:
< META http-equiv="refresh" content="10; URL=http://www.somesitename.com/home.html"
>
The advantage of a splash page is that you can create effects or provide information that is
only needed once a visit. For example, a user can keep coming back to the home page without having
to be bothered with browser requirements.
2) Some sites use "splash page" to mean the home page itself, especially where it contains
attention-capturing visual or multimedia effects (creating a "splash").
Contributor(s): Jim Shaughnessy
This was last updated in July 2000
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