It doesn't matter whether you're using Dreamweaver or not, this is a simple HTML meta tag.
Put this in your header...
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://webdesign.about.com">
Content: how many seconds to display
URL: where you want to direct to after x amount of seconds
~Sovereign
......page after a few seconds..........hav seen a site that has ads on the 1st three pages and after 5 seconds or so move on to the other page.........how can i do that with dreamweaver 8
i just wanna show my index pagge for 8 seconds then jump to my home page.........

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