Are splash pages necessary?

What are Flash designs much loved by people around the world? It’s mainly due to the interactive elements like video, audio and animation. Flash components are used by a lot of web designers.
There are many expert flash web designers around the world. To know about expert designers you can do a web search using the keyword flash design brisbane, as Brisbane designers are considered to the one of the best web designers in the world.
One of the biggest mistakes that people do while designing flash sites is the addition of splash pages.
A splash page is the page of a website that the user sees first, before proceeding to the main content.
A splash page will have attractive graphics or a Flash movie, along with a link to click and enter the website. Nowadays you can see a lot of websites with splash pages.
Splash pages may add beauty to the site, but are not promoted by most of the designers. Here are a few reasons behind it.
Your home page should convey all the relevant details about the website, in the minimum time. A splash page creates an extra step for the visitors, making the process tougher. Web surfers won’t spend extra time on any website, and hence may leave your site soon.
A pretty picture on the splash page may take way the possible search engine ranking. As the search engines give a lot of importance for your home page, make sure that the home page is content rich, and includes the targeted keywords. If you have a splash page, the search engine virtually has nothing to index, and hence may affect your page rank.
Read more about splash pages from the online articles in the websites of leading web designing companies. This will help you to understand the harmful effects of splash pages

Uh, I think this thread was probably made for advertising, but I'll just remove the link and leave it open because any criticism towards splash pages is valid discussion. They're a HORRIBLE idea.

Fat fat fast splash pages are annoying, but splash pages for multinational entities (like Yamaha) or something are fine. Choose your country/ area of interest. It depends on what's there, though usually there ain't much there at all. :P

I admire your craft, Anderson. :love:

There's usually a 'skip this' button in case it's taking too long to load or something though, right? They can be classy, or they can be annoying, depends how it's done.