First off I have trouble spelling HTML so my solution needs to be close to fairly simple
A friend told me they have seen web pages that open a flash type document and then go to the web home page. I would like to create a page for reminders and other important data but will be changed frequently. Once the person finishes reading the info they can go to my home page. Does this make sense to anyone?

Of course it does! It's called a FLASH Intro. But, I would stay away from FLASH. Reason being, anyone with an Apple device (ipad, iphone, iWhatever...) won't be able to see it.

If you are creating a VSD web site, simply rename your home page(index.html) to home.html.
Then create a new page with the content you want to display first. Put a button on it that says something like" Press This to Enter the Web Site" The new page you can name index.html and it will come up first.

Anytime you want to change the content just load up VSD and change the index page, then re-publish.

Make sure to change any menu links you have to reflect the Home Page as home.html and not index.html

The only way anyone would see the 'Front' page then would be when they first load the site in their browser.

That makes complete sense. Thanks for the help.

If you are hell bent on still having a flash into, the only other way you could do this (and I would not recommend it if you don't really need it since the Flash is such a pain for so many Apple based products) is to create a separate intro page for your site and have code to detect the type of device being used to view it. Would take a bit of finagling code, but it could be done. You'd probably have to hire someone to do it though if you're not into coding I would personally do as Gunsmoke suggests though, stay away from the flash stuff, you're users will be happier for it and landing pages are just one more click they have to do to get to your site, you actually lose visitors when you do that unless it's a necessity due to multiple buttons they could choose from to go to various sites.

I have a site here: www.praxis-erdogan.de and then click on one of the flags. It has a flash thing in the header for those who have devices that support flash, and for those who don't there is a slide show underneath the flash. If you check the code, you will see how it is done. it can certainly be made larger, so that it can cover a whole page.

Inger,

Will you please tell me how you solved the "flash issue? I used VSD for my website but, need a way to use what I have but compensate for the flash /Apple issue.

www.klingcabinets.com

Hi,

I answered your other post and referred to the same site.
I don't use VSD, but it should be possible to insert the slideshow or image that you want to place underneath the flash. I guess you need to use the flash tool to insert the flash, and after having done so, you open the code and look at the end of the flash code. If it has the tags <noflash></noflash>, between them is the place to insert what you want to have for non-flash devices. If there are no noflash tags, try inserting it just before the </object> tag.

If my explanation for VSD isn't clear enough, then wait for Eric or Paintbrush to chime in.

I use this method.

Paste the code to a HTML box Body HTML then change the <img src="http://mydomain.com/nonflash_image.jpg"> to your image or other content. Next replace the ********---Flash code goes here---******* with your flash code.

Some admin, I suspect Eric, sent me a note that I have some redundant code in the html of the site I mentioned above.
I'm aware of it. And on more pages than the one quoted. I'm working with the site these days to make it more SEO friendly, and I have already corrected it off-line. But I'm away from home and forgot to bring the server details, so it will have to stay faulty for another week.

Yes it was me. I was admiring your source code and noticed it. Just a friendly note. I thought it automatically signed the messages. Sorry.