Take it from me I did look at the website.... the page is redundant

If it has no use except to have the visitor click on something to enter the site, then it's a splash page.

Thanks for all your input. I'm giving some thought as to how to incorporate the first 2 pages. I think I'm hung up on being 'artistic', as I like to design things....

Hi Marylin when I first looked at your home page I didn't really think "splash page" ... until I saw the "Enter" link, and then I noticed that the home page does look artistic but doesn't give enough info to hold attention.

Perhaps if you remove the Enter link and scatter some linkable pictures of jewelry items on the page instead?

Hi Marylin,

There has to be a trade off between being artistic and having sufficient text with your keywords and phrases so that search engines like you site and will make sure that customers find your site when they enter these keywords and phrases into Google, Yahoo or Bing.

The search engines dont really care about art but eat up boring ol' text So In my opinion:

1. you need work out your keyphrases
2. put them in the page title, and in "h1" headers. Emphasise them by "bold-ing" them in the general text of your site.
3. Do not overdo it as it still has to read well for the customer.

Make sure you keep what you have as its great, but add more text and use keywords.

All the best

Hi Marilyn,
Like others here, I find splash pages a waste of time. After checking out your site (beautiful jewelry!), I thought the info from your bio page would make a good intro to the site (with the text tweaked to follow Paul's seo advice). That along with some jewelry samples to grab attention would let people know immediately what the site had to offer. Linking the photos to other pages as Zipper suggested would also provide more than one way to get to those pages.
The menu would get more notice if it moved off the bottom of the page - maybe to the left side?
I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with