POLL: Splash Pages

[tessisamess]

It's very likely that you've encountered a splash page while online before. A website's splash page is like their front door. Not all websites have them but, when they do, they often have information and/or warnings and enter/exit links. Sites cam use them as loading pages as well.

Poll Splash Page Poll

Comments

[turnerwolf]

I said that I like the creative ones, and I do, but if they present a loading screen and take more than a second or two to 'load'- I don't bother with the site. If the site was important enough, they wouldn't need the diversionary tactic.

[tessisamess]

I'm the same way. Tbh, if a site's splash has nothing to do with loading and everything to do with forcing you to look at sale products or what have you I usually leave, unless there's something I really need. But mostly I love seeing creative ones and the rest of the non-loading ones barely even phase me.

[jester]

Splash pages make me unreasonably angry. I don't want a pre-page before your actual page.

[tessisamess]

Just curious: Even if there's a legitimate reason for it to be there, like legal warnings for pornography?

[jester]

Hmm. For the most part, I assume people know what they're looking for when they go to porn sites, but I don't know. I guess it it's just a warning it could be one thing, but it seems pointless to me. Couldn't you just make your index page have a warning and then put the actual content in other places?

I realize it's irrational, haha. I think flash pages are the worst, though.

[tessisamess]

Actually, yeah. On non-flash sites the index usually is the splash/welcome page (from what I've seen). Then you'd have, say, home.html for your home page. That being said, flash sites with loading splash pages (and flash sites in general) are freaking horrible.

Although, re: warnings, it's less about telling someone who just landed on tightasianasses.com that they're in for, well, tight Asian ass as it is about legally covering the site owners' asses, whose actual, potentially non-Asian, tightness may vary. And most all porn-hosting sites say something to the effect of "Blah blah we have people boning back here so if you're not of legal age in your country you need to gtfo."

But then, there's the gray area of sites that could contain porn, but isn't exclusively porn. For instance, on the not-so-hardcore side of things, fanfic archival sites often have splashes that inform you that not all of the fic hosted is PG or lower, and you do run the risk of reading some graphic porn if you decide to view the site (and suck at paying

[electricdruid]

I will still visit the site, but I will definitely be annoyed. Even if it's for a porn site. They can log my IP address and if I've been there before they don't need to show me the legal crap every single time I go there.

[tessisamess]

THAT is something I was thinking about. I much prefer only seeing it the first time, then having it remember me and knowing I've seen the shit and I'm good to go. Like when I used to go to AFFnet, having to go through it every time just to read horribly written crap was so not worth it.

[pterawaters]

For some reason fanfiction.net never remembers that I have, in fact, agreed to their "guidelines". It makes me agree to them every time I want to post a new story. Like, how are they not tying the info to my account? Lol, it hasn't bothered me enough to complain yet though.

As far as splash screens go, most of them annoy me. If it was cool looking and I only had to see it once, I wouldn't mind.

[tessisamess]

This is going to sound terrible since I own the site, but holy shit every time I use fancyandthefury.net and go to an adult story it gives me the warning splash. My settings say I'm over 18 and I uh own the site and am the head administrator. :| I keep meaning to look into it in the efiction forums, but ugh. Lazy. And no one's complained about it, so...

[onetouchdonnie]

I don't mind splash pages long as they only come up once and that's when I enter the site and it's creative enough for me since it should be at least interesting. They want to be careful? Okay. Understandable. Better to be safe then sorry in some terms. I think they have to put up stuff like that due to law or something requiring them to put up disclaimers in order to protect themselves? I'm not really sure. /should have listened to those law lectures better

But on the other hand. I've been to some sites that splash pages that come up before every. Single. Page. That's just overkill, rather insulting now that I think about it, and I immediately go NOPENOPENOPE into space if it happens more than three times. Which is, distressingly enough, happens a lot of times. So basically I'm cool with splash pages. Just don't overuse them, site owners please thanks.