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What Does Splash Page Mean?

In Web design, a splash page is an introductory page that webmasters may use as a gate between the initial loading of the site and the actual site content. Also called a "splash screen" or a "landing page," a splash page often features high-design visuals and other design aspects that are supposed to attract Web users to proceed further into the website.

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Techopedia Explains Splash Page

Many splash screens include accessible graphics and a few simple on-screen choices that make the site more accessible to users. Many of them contain either control buttons or text boxes, where users can choose to learn more about a company or product, register for a product or service, or navigate a site. In some cases, companies choose to use the splash page as an access gatekeeper, requiring registration information in order to allow Web users to visit the site.

The use of splash pages in Web design has its share of advantages and disadvantages. Splash pages can jazz up a site and make it look better, but, on the contrary, fancy animation or other types of splash page features can cause pages to load slower and can have a deterrent effect on Web users. Some industry experts point to studies that show a lot of users clicking out of the site because they do not like splash pages and they do not want this delay before entering the site. Web designers and project managers have to evaluate all of these issues when choosing whether or not to build a splash page and how to design it effectively.

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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.