automatically hyperlink

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Robert

I want my home page (index.htm) to view for one second with a logo picture,
then automatically hyperlink to a page which is the real home page with
content. I do not think this is hard to do, but I am new to web sites
building. Thanks in
advance for your help.
 
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Tony Norman

Place the following in the <HEAD> tags of the index.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://www.url.com">

Change the text after the content= to the amount of time (in SECONDS)
you want them to see the page before they are transferred. (You may need to
set to about 3 seconds, for your case [so they have time to see your logo])

Change the text after the url= to the URL you want the users to see
after the time you've set passes.
 
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Tom J

Robert said:
I want my home page (index.htm) to view for one second with a logo
picture,
then automatically hyperlink to a page which is the real home page
with
content.
Click to expand...

Do you really want that, or do you want your site found by the major
search engines? I'd prefer the latter!

Tom J
 
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Robert

I guess there is a consequence that search engines will not be able to locate
my site. Can you please explain why? Is there a work around; like putting
hidden comments in or something? Thanks for your remarks.
 
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Tom J

Just from my personal experience, when I used all includes on my index
page and no actual text, my search links dropped like a rock. As soon
as I went back on made the index page actually link to all the rest of
the site, within a week the links went right back up.

Tom J
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Tom J,

What do you mean by "all includes" as includes are merge into the page when you save it in FP or
merged into the page when the page container page is requested from the server by a browser or a
search engine robot, the search engine would have not way of knowing otherwise.

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Robert

All of you here are much more knowledgeable about FrontPage and the internet
than I am. My wish is to have a logo seen first for one second before coming
to the home page with content and hyperlinks. The logo.jpg is part of the
website made in FrontPage and not external to the web design. Tom J has
indicated that search engines may have difficulty gathering “keywords†(is
this the concept?) because there is no visible text on the index.htm page. Is
this a fair argument? If this is true or partially true, is there a work
around? Thanks for thinking with me.
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Yes, plus search engines do not like automatic redirect.

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Thomas A. Rowe

The only workaround is to put some text on the page and a clickable hyperlink, with the main item
being the clickable link.

I actually do believe in using splash pages. I have never had any issues with search engines
indexing my sites over the years.

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Tom J

Thomas A. Rowe said:
Tom J,

What do you mean by "all includes" as includes are merge into the
page when you save it in FP or merged into the page when the page
container page is requested from the server by a browser or a search
engine robot, the search engine would have not way of knowing
otherwise.
Click to expand...

Like I said, I don't have a clue as to why the search engines quit my
site as soon as I took everything off the index page (and in my case
replaced with "includes") but they did. 3 days after going back to the
original index page everything was back to normal. Some engines are
crawling the site daily, some every 2 to 3 days, and all but 1
weekly, so the results were immediately both ways.

Tom J
 

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