Making a Splash!

They say you never have a second chance to make a first impression, and that the first impression is made within 5 seconds of meeting someone. Well, with Web pages it’s even faster than that.

What does your Splash Page say about your site? Does it grab your readers and hold them, drawing them deeper into the site? Or does it say and do nothing and even drive them away to another page? Creating your splash page to showcase your personality, style, and branding is a great way to make a first impression to your clients.

There are quite a few advantages to having a splash page.

• The main advantage of a splash page is that through a splash page, one can get all the information required on the first page of the website without much scrolling as splash pages are fast loading.
• Splash pages are a great way to show off the best work you can produce, and thus also act as a portfolio of your work and work capacity for potential employers.
•  As the splash page states the technical requirements necesary for their particular website, it allows the reader to choose, prior to visiting the site, the technology that best fits them and their computers.
• It is also a great means of using your server logs to get the complete breakdown of the actual number of customers to the website.

So, sky’s the limit in making your splash page really Splash! Show off some personality and do what it takes to grab that potential client….For some splashing ideas check out selected splash examples below.