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I'm doing something old-fashioned and creating a splash page (flash with some text as alternate content) for a site. I want people entering the site to see it, but for the "home" page of the site to be the one that it links to.

Is it best to have this page within the CMS, or externally? (as an index.html with appropriate DirectoryIndex set).

I am currently leaning towards having it external, because that leaves me with the freedom to adjust the default page within the CMS. In which case how do I change the "home" link to not just point to /  ?

Create a page strukture like this:

1 Splash page (default page, type = content, content = {embed src="url to your flash movie"}, not shown in menu)
2 Home (type content)
3 ...

The "home" link what i think you're talking about (e.g. the Logo) is created by the plugin {cms_selflink} in the template with the param dir="start" what leads to that page that is marked as default (in this case the splash page).
You can also create this link with a diferent param like e.g {cms_selflink page="home" text="Home" title="Home Page"} where "home" is the alias of that page you want to be shown as "home" page (in this case it is the second page wich will just act like a home page).
Since the default page is not shown in the menu and the "home" link refers not to the default page but to any other page you want it to this might be what you're looking for, isn't it?

If you request your site like domain.com it will lead to the splash page.
On your page you will have a "home" link that refers to domain.com/home.
Quite simple

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