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Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 04/24/07 06:46
Scripsit Jim Comfort:
> Jim Moe wrote:
>
> << But why would you want to? Splash pages are useless fluff, an
> unnecessary layer of isolation from your real content.>>
>
> The person I'm setting this up for really wants a specific picture on
> the page, along with his company name, as he put it, "really big".
Do does he pay you well? If not, why are you doing this? Sorry for asking -
maybe he's pointing a gun at you, or maybe you're secretly hired by his
competitor.
> My thinking is that if I can do a picture displaying for a few
> seconds in the index.html file, then the banner with his pic won't
> take up 2/3 of the page.
Who cares?
> In my html class, admittedly a few years back, I seem to remember the
> instructor mentioning a way to do it inside the <head> tag in your
> index.html file, but whether it was with a <div> or javascript, or
> CSS I can't recall.
Fine. It's part of the survival strategy of our mind to forget things that
need not be remembered.
> I'm trying to appease the owner of the site, that's why I can't rule
> out a splash page.
Why are you trying to appease him, and why does this make you try to avoid
doing what he wants and create some other foolishness instead?
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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