I have a website with a normal index.htm page to start it. What I would like to do is create a simple page with my logo centered near the top and a black background.

When someone first comes to the site, I would like the logo page to come up first as the index.htm loads in the background. And then after a pre-determined amount of time, say 3 to 4 seconds have the opening logo page disolve away leaving the index page? Or maybe floats up or some transition. Is there a way to call this logo page up in the code on the index.htm page?

Jerry - KC

httaccess. No doubts.

But I would rather suggest calling your index.htm into something like home.htm or main.htm and then simply make a new index.htm that would contain a logo and a JS that would redirect to the main page after those 4 seconds.

I don't know...I don't think .htacess applies to this situation. What I see is a heck of a lot of JS programming.

Seriously, you've got to really know Javascript to do what I think you want to do. You'd have to use a thread to load the index page while your animation loads in the foreground. Two processes, a thread for each. I don't even know if Javascript supports that.

But come to think of it, you might need to do that in Flash. If your home page takes forever to load, I believe it's rather easy to tell Flash to play your movie in the foreground while the background loads.

Let me know if you get it working. I'll be very interested to find out if it works.

no, No. All of these guys are wrong. What you want to do is Take a screen shot of your website without the logo. Edit with paint put the logo on top.
Have a redirect code, with transition effects for content=3 which is like 3 seconds.

hope I helped!