First page of the website

[BrokenKlutch]

Peace...

I would like to know how to name and make the front page that says enter show.

To break it down simpler...
On certain sites ..once you enter the site address and go to the site and it'll have a flash presentation or a pic and below it says Enter....then you enter the site with all the links and etc.

Now i know the front page has to be and index file...but is there some way to override that and let the index be the page with everything on it...so that my initial first page can have a jpeg and say enter.

If you understand this please help me out...

Thanks

[alphadesk]

Sure...just make your first page be the one you want with the pic flash intro...whatever named index.html or.htm

The "Enter" link can be named home.html or default.html or anything to take you to the site.

Don't try to make this hard. :D

[BrokenKlutch]

Damn... I was trying to avoid rename all my links but then again...i don't think i have to ...whatever...my lazyness was talkin

Thanks for the help...Much appreciated

[Naveen]

If you dont want to update all your links, you can use .htaccess to define your index page .... lets say home.html.

DirectoryIndex home.html

You can have the jpg file on home.html and then link the page to index.html


hope it helps.

[BrokenKlutch]

Thanks...
I'm pretty much straight. I didn't really have to do much to any links or files...really just took like 2 secs cause I set frames so that helped alot.

Thanks for the prompt help

[tbonekkt]

Originally posted by BrokenKlutch
I'm pretty much straight. I didn't really have to do much to any links or files...really just took like 2 secs cause I set frames so that helped alot. Be careful when using frames though. Search engines don't like them and therefore you'll get lower rankings.

[stevel]

Let me put in a vote against doing such a thing - such entry pages are annoying to the user and also hurt you in search engine indexing, since the search engines will consider all your content to be at least "one level down".

For another perspective on this, see this (http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/index032002.html).