- Sat Jun 16, 2007 5:44 pm
#4679
Ah, cool. I don't usually get excited about much or look forward to anything, really, but I feel interested to know what this playground will look like once all the monkey bars and swings are up.
I don't know what a splash screen or whatever you called it is. What's that, the index page or homepage or whatever? Intro page where you click high-speed or dial-up? I remember sometime ago (I think anyway) some dude was calling it just a message board in your feedback thread, though saying it was a nice message board. I guess it'll look more like a website to dudes like that when they see the graphics you mentioned incorporating—including Flash stuff or whatever, like ppl have come to expect when they enter a website, I guess. I just wonder how you can pull off all this work you do using a dial-up connection.
Man, I'm sleepy. I don't even feel sure if that's something I was reading about earlier tonight or what, anymore. I guess I need to work on getting out of the habit of commenting on things when I don’t have a solid frame of reference. Thanks for the reply, boss.
[Edit] H***, I guess I need to stop asking questions I can go look up the answers to, as well. I'll just go do a search on splash screen, man. Sorry.
For other morons, here's a bit on splash pages from wikipedia or whatever it's called.
On the Internet, a splash screen or splash page is a page of a web site that is a sort of pre-home page front page, usually providing no real information besides perhaps a note about browser requirements and sometimes a web counter. Often, this page is graphics-intensive and used only for reasons of branding, and sometimes it provides a choice of entry points for the site proper, such as links to Adobe Flash and HTML-only versions of the site.
Since splash screens may sometimes take a long time to load, they are not universally liked by users. Web splash screens are especially inconvenient for users with slow internet connections, as the first page takes longer to load.
Splash screens often don't include any meaningful text, by nature. This often negatively impacts a site's ranking on search engines.