Splash Pages can act as a doorway to your web site,
providing fun ways to highlight the latest news or just entertain your
viewers. What is the old saying, First Impressions...
FrontLook FX Winter Splash Page
It is common to provide the user a
doorway link and a automatic redirection to your home page after a
couple of seconds. This done using the Refresh System Meta tag.
Bring up the Splash page in FrontPage and right click on the page and select the Page Properties menu item. Then select the Custom tab.
Page Properties Dialog
Press the System Variables "Add..." button.
System Meta Variable Dialog
Now Add the following to the System-Meta Variable Dialog and press the OK button.:
Name: Refresh
Value: 10;URL=index.htm
Where:
"10" is the number of seconds to wait before proceeding to the URL. Replace the number "10" with the delay seconds.
"URL=index.htm" is the URL loading in the browser after the specified time. Replace the "index.htm" with your Home URL.
This URL can be a relative URL such as ../splashpages/winter.htm or an
absolute URL such as http://www.frontlook.com/fx/winter/index.htm.
The browser's refresh capability is great
way to redirect user to different pages or keep content fresh.
Make
your Splash Page the Default Page on your Web
Once you have your splash page setup on your web, you need to make it so
that the user is taken to the splash page by default. Once you have
published your web to your server, contact your web hoster and ask them
to make your new splash page the default page of your web.
Note:
Do not name your splash page "index.htm" as this is a special
page in FrontPage. Trying to make the splash page the index page of the
web will likely mess up your navigation structure.
