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how to make my index page jump to my home

May 10, 2007 6:04AM PDT

......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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OK
May 10, 2007 12:08PM PDT

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

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great help!
May 10, 2007 6:30PM PDT

it works........thanx

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Hope you're not developing an e-commerce or business site
May 15, 2007 3:25AM PDT

because search engine spiders hate re-directs, they won't follow it!

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beware!
May 17, 2007 5:46AM PDT

so do users!

You will loose lots of users by doing that, just think about it...

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not always
May 17, 2007 6:07AM PDT

If he has a index page with a picture to look at, and has a "continue" link and a redirect... people can (a) skip ahead whenever they like and (b) are automatically redirected after 8 seconds to prevent them from staying there too long and getting caught up. It wouldn't bother me.

~Sovereign

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well...
May 17, 2007 6:25AM PDT

I guess is just a matter of opinion.
I think is a really bad idea, not thinking of what i would do, but what a regular user would do...
(by regular I mean, a person that doesnt know what a redirect is, you know....just few people use websites and know how they work)

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It also depends
May 17, 2007 7:09AM PDT

on the content of your website. If you were making a website with game cheats... people usually go there to get a cheat NOW... so this delay would be annoying, but if you were making a website on meditation, the 8sec picture of nature... just before you enter the website, to relax or something, might be very content oriented and not a bad idea.

~Sovereign