Splash or intro page

[Tzalim]

Hello,

I'm not sure where to put this thread but is there any way to put a splash or intro page? I'm not sure how to explain it with this CMS but the intro or splash page that I want, is like, nothing will be on it except the splash page, no links no navigational bar... just the splash page. Then, I want the page to link to my home page. I hope you understand what I'm talking about.

Thanks

[Dr.CSS]

You can make a template with nothing in it but the splash code.
A default content block is required but you don't need to use id per se:

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{content assign="devnull"}

Then create a page and attach the spash template. Fill in same dummy text in the content area (required again). Save the page and make it the default page (column in content page overview).

Of course you need to create a link to your 'home' page.

This approach means that on every visit to the root url of your cmsms installation ("http://www.example.com) the splash page will be shown.

If first-time-visitors land on another page (e.g. via Google search result to specific page) the splash will NOT be shown.

[Tzalim]

Hello,

I'm sort of getting the idea, but still stuck. See, I don't know that much about HTML and CSS, and I want to attach a CCS to my template, sorry if I forgot to say that. But I did half of what you said, about making a template. Lets just take this one step at a time, for my sake. Ok, I made a template called index beside my main template and put my splash info, then I attached my CSS, but I'm not getting none of my styles, why is that? Sorry be a noob at all this.

[Jo Morg]

The page you are using also needs to have that template assigned to it, otherwise you'll still be seeing the old template.

[frany]

Hi there,

I wanted to do the same, and I wonder if is possible to do the intro without the CMS.

I have my intro in pure html file, index.html, and there is a link to my home page index.php.

It's work fine, but unfortunately when a clik "home" in the menu the lik send me to my intro.

How can i solve this.?

Thank you.

[velden]

Not tested:

Create a new content page and make that one default (pages overview).

Call {menu} with the 'excludeprefix' parameter with alias of the created (default) page, so it will be hidden from the menu.

You might consider adding a page specific meta tag which redirects a visitor to the 'real' homepage in case one visits "http://www.example.com/index.php

The fact that this works in your case does not mean it does for every other server/hosting provider. In this case the webserver gives priority to index.htm(l) over index.php but I've seen webservers that were configured differently.

[frany]

thank you velden, I will try to do it, anyway there are many things in your explannation that I can't undertand due to the fact I am very new with this CMS ( only 3 days )

[Dr.CSS]

I make a new page using a template that doesn't have a menu but it does have a link to the "home" page, set it to not show in the menu, this site is one that does have a link back to the 'splash' page...

http://tributetoaking.com/