Website Tips

• The workability of a splash page is completely non-productive. Your readers come to your site to enter it and a splash page prevents that.
  
  
• Many readers don't like splash pages and in some studies 25% of visitors left a site right after seeing a splash page.
  
  
• Splash pages break search engines. Since many splash pages only include a flash animation there isn't a lot for a search engine to optimise on. And if you add content to the page in comments you can be penalised for spamdexing.
  
  
• The animation can be repetitive. Readers who have seen the flash don't often want to sit through it again and if you forget to include a "skip" option they will have to.
  
  
• While the flash movie or fancy animation may look really nice, the impression they make may be one of pretentiousness rather than detailing your skills.
  
  
• If you submit your splash page to a search engine, the JavaScript codes that move customers to the next page may prevent the search engine from adding any page on the site.

Our Opinion of Splash Pages

We find them annoying. We don't like to link to them and we don't feel that the benefits of choosing the site that works best for my browser outweighs the annoyance. So we wouldn't recommend creating a splash page when begining your website design process but, once you've reviewed all the pros and cons, you should make your own choice.

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