10-13-2007, 10:10 AM
Quote:12 Common Reasons For Using Splash Pages
1. Splash pages display disclaimers or warnings which are supposed to restrict access to content such as pornography, advertising, or gambling (as is required by law).
2. It is necessary to draw visitors attention to an important message such as approaching deadline, critical update, latest release, news, slogan etc.
3. Visitors are supposed to select the language they want to use or the country they come from to direct users to the appropriate version of the site.
4. Visitors can choose between a low-bandwidth version (HTML Dial-Up) and high-bandwidth version (Flash cable, DSL). Sometimes one can also choose the accessible version containing only text without images...
full article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/10/...need-them/