Using FrontLook Splash Pages
The FrontLook Page Effects product comes with many pre-made splash pages to
wow your web site viewers. Adding a FrontLook Effects Splash to your web is
easy using the Insert->FrontLook->FrontLook Page Effects->Splash
Pages... menu item.
Insert Splash Page Menu
The Insert Splash Page Dialog will appear.
Insert Splash Page dialog
Select the splash page and press the
"Preview" button to view the splash page.
Once you have selected a splash page to be
inserted, then name the page (splash.htm in this example) and make sure the
location is satisfactory. Then press the "OK" button to insert the page and
its graphics onto your web site.
Note: Do NOT Name
your splash page "index.htm" or "Default.htm" as these are special page
names in FrontPage for the home page of the web. You will learn later how to
make your splash page the default page on your web.
Trying to make the splash page into
the index page of the web may mess up your
navigation structure.
You can then edit the Page and Cursor Effects
on the splash page by double clicking on the PE and CE Logos.
Customize the Page
Most of the pages will have a "Place your Link Here" type of placeholder for
your home page link. Change this and anything else using the FrontPage
editor.
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.
If you are hosting your
own web, then bring up your web site Properties from the Internet
Information Services Manager and then add "splash.htm" to the top of the
Default Documents list as illustrated below:
Setting the splash.htm page to the
default page in an IIS web
Adding a Redirection Timer to the Splash
Page
If you would like to automatically redirect the user to your home page after
some pre-programmed delay, do the following:
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 and press the System Variables "Add..." button.
Now Add the following to the System-Meta
Variable Dialog and press the OK button.:
System Meta Variable Dialog
Where the
"10" is the number of second 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.
Page Properties dialog with Refresh Meta tag added
Inserting a Splash Page as a FrontPage
Page Template
You can also insert the FrontLook Page Effects Splash page using the
FrontPage Page Templates dialog. Bring up the Page Templates dialog by
selecting the File->New->Page... (FP2000) or File->New->Page or Web... and
then the Page Templates link (FP2002) menu item.
FrontPage Page Templates Dialog
Then select the desired FrontLook Splash Page
template to view the preview. Press the "OK" button to insert the page in
the web. Now customize the page.
Important - you must to double click the
PE and CE logos on the Splash page and press the OK button once the PE and
CE dialog appear to activate the Page and Cursor effects.
