Intro / Splash Page

[Tony Hardy]

Hey everyone,

A client that I'm currently designing a website with is after a Splash/Intro page where they can have a little bit of animation and a choice of languages to select.

Does anyone have any suggestions? They said 'a Flash intro' but I'm trying to steer them away from that. Can JQuery do anything like it? Been trying to read up on it but keep getting in a muddle.

Cheers,
Tony

[bigdave]

I'd personally say avoid a landing page. It serves no real purpose apart from pissing people off. The viewer has visited the site specifically to get information from it, if they entered the url so they already know where they've landed and don't need a dancing pixie to tell them. If they didnt enter the url and are coming in from a google search, they'll probably miss the landing page anyway. As for language selection, that's probably better integrated into the site because someone coming into the bulk of the site from a google search wont want to have to leave the page to get to a landing page to change their language to then try and find where google took them

[Tony Hardy]

My thoughts entirely. I'm trying to use my powers of persuasion. I just hope they go for it. They also want sound :(

[Corrosive]

To second Dave it is also a bloody terrible idea from an SEO point of view. Your home page is the most important page on your website so the dancing pixie is a massive no in my book.

[Corrosive]

They also want sound :(

Arghhhhhhhhh!!!!! Use the SEO argument. Tell them no one will find them on Google if they have one (OK, slight exaggeration). Christ, anyone would think it is 2002 :icon_tongue_smilie:

[Tony Hardy]

I know. The worst part of it, is that it's a coder/programmer that's handling the project, and I'm just looking after the design side of things.

Surely they should know the pitfalls of landing pages and Flash.

[Corrosive]

Surely they should know the pitfalls of landing pages and Flash.

You'd have thought wouldn't you...:icon_scared:

[Tony Hardy]

I might just refuse to do it :) Haha.

[ARRIVALS]

If he still decides to go with something done in Flash, is there no way you can embed some invisible code, keywords, tags etc.., say, behind the Flash SWF file? That way he may not be top of google, but higher than he might have been with a simple flash intro. I thought I read somewhere that something like that could be done? Or was I seeing things?

[Tony Hardy]

Sounds like a plan, is it legal? Also, how did you do your London Calling intro Arrivals?