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[Mark Withington]

Thank Norm,

That's the direction I'm heading, however, it seems such a strategy will
them make the Home page = splash page.  This might get frustrating for the
user to constantly double back to the splash page all the time...although it
is a really good looking splash page ;-)

Mark

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: joomla-bounces at lists.nyphp.org 
> [mailto:joomla-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Norman ONeil
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:08 AM
> To: NYPHP SIG: Joomla
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Splash page
> 
> 
> You could just create a simplified template and assign it to the  
> "home" Page menu Choice, then you could point home at a static page  
> or a content item or another component if you wish.
> 
> On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Mark Withington wrote:
> 
> > Would like to make a splash page inside Joomla!  This would greet
> > the user
> > after http://www.joomlasite.com with a simple "enter button" or  
> > skip intro
> > link.  After that, the menu buttons would refer to the index.php? 
> > option=....
> > Is there a best practice way to do this?  I would prefer to keep  
> > the splash
> > within the Joomla framework as opposed to naming it index.html and  
> > asking
> > Apache to serve index.html up first.
> >
> > Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Mark
> >
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