How to create a splash page within C5 site
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Hi,
I am building a site for a client and 80% there with this. But they want an intro 'splash page' to come up before it automatically fades to the new home page and I am struggling to do this.
I have told the client that this kind of intro page is bad practice and will give some Google SEO problems but hey ho, he is paying for this.
I have seen half resolved threads about this, but no solution and with most of the pages built, I don't want to re-invent the whole site.
This is what they want to replicate,http://www.limewoodhotel.co.uk a simple image page which cuts in before the main site and automatically fades to go into the home page.
Any help on this would be really great.
Thanks
I am building a site for a client and 80% there with this. But they want an intro 'splash page' to come up before it automatically fades to the new home page and I am struggling to do this.
I have told the client that this kind of intro page is bad practice and will give some Google SEO problems but hey ho, he is paying for this.
I have seen half resolved threads about this, but no solution and with most of the pages built, I don't want to re-invent the whole site.
This is what they want to replicate,http://www.limewoodhotel.co.uk a simple image page which cuts in before the main site and automatically fades to go into the home page.
Any help on this would be really great.
Thanks
Why not make the "home" page the splash screen and then put a redirect on that to the "real" homepage and build your site below that?
Hi Tallacman,
Thanks for the suggestion, but the whole site is built off the original 'home' page. Adding a new home page I would imaging would throw the whole C5 system off?
Thanks Again
Thanks for the suggestion, but the whole site is built off the original 'home' page. Adding a new home page I would imaging would throw the whole C5 system off?
Thanks Again
You could also have your home page with a redirection addon that will then redirect to the page after some time. This addon could do the trick :
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/maxmind-ip-geoloc/...
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/maxmind-ip-geoloc/...
Hi Goutnet,
I have had a look at your add on in the marketplace, I don't see how this would work, can you elaborate please?
Thanks
I have had a look at your add on in the marketplace, I don't see how this would work, can you elaborate please?
Thanks
The way I see it is this:
- install that addon
- create a second home page under the global homepage
- move all the other pages under that new page
- create a redirection rule that is always valid to the second home pag
- set a timeout for that rule and set to auto redirect
- apply that rule to the home page
This way, your homepage becomes the splashscreen, and the user get redirected to the new page after the timeout
- install that addon
- create a second home page under the global homepage
- move all the other pages under that new page
- create a redirection rule that is always valid to the second home pag
- set a timeout for that rule and set to auto redirect
- apply that rule to the home page
This way, your homepage becomes the splashscreen, and the user get redirected to the new page after the timeout
You can see a site I did here:http://www.greatbasinbrewingco.com/...
that has a splash page. This one checks your age but it is easy to put aredirect in your page with:
where content = your number of seconds
that has a splash page. This one checks your age but it is easy to put aredirect in your page with:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://nysite.com/" />
where content = your number of seconds
I have a similar question. I am designing a employee portal for our company. I have the actual employee/manager side that is password protected and has login redirect to the individuals page. But I would like the first page to be a career center for those interested in applying for the company. In other words, when you come to our sight there would be a splash page that would have a little blurb on our company and a apply now button that would take them to the online application. But on that splash page would also be a "Employees only" login that would take them to the rest of the site.
My problem is that i cant figure out how to make the global nav that is for the rest of the site to not appear on the splash page. Thank you in advance for your assistance with this.
My problem is that i cant figure out how to make the global nav that is for the rest of the site to not appear on the splash page. Thank you in advance for your assistance with this.
