Front Page nav question

[bwood]

I'm trying to bring a country music guy into the 21st century - but still carrying on with some traditional graphics.

My opening page will be one image - stretched - a logo - 2 lines of text with some staggered automation - and a little graphic that says "One Way". Id like no footer and no nav on this opening page. I think I'll have to deal with viewports, but a later discussion

The demographic here is 50+. Id like viewer to click "one way" and that'll take him/her to the music and news page.

Here's the question -- will the viewer understand clicking on the "one way" sign -- or to I need a menu, or a dreaded "click me, or here" type of thing.

I know the page is large - but the rest of the site will be quite svelt. Enclosed pic of page - and project file

Thanks,
Bill

[gwpriester]

I think the way you have it with the one way arrow might work. But my firm belief is the harder you make for your visitor to figure out what she/he is supposed to do the easier you make it for him/her to go elsewhere.

Is the one way sign a coded message e.g. religious? Or is there a specific reason for the sign that his visitors will understand?

If the one way is not justified, perhaps a simple invitation, C'mon In.

[Acorn]

Bill, I would time the page to jump to the real deal after your animation finishes. That leaves not doubt of where to go.

Acorn

[bwood]

I think the way you have it with the one way arrow might work. But my firm belief is the harder you make for your visitor to figure out what she/he is supposed to do the easier you make it for him/her to go elsewhere.

Is the one way sign a coded message e.g. religious? Or is there a specific reason for the sign that his visitors will understand?

If the one way is not justified, perhaps a simple invitation, C'mon In.

I’ve been trying to th8nk of a phrase like that for about three days. Thanks Gary

[bwood]

Bill, I would time the page to jump to the real deal after your animation finishes. That leaves not doubt of where to go.

Acorn

Now you’re talking! And you realize what my next question is …….

[Acorn]

Now you’re talking! And you realize what my next question is …….

Bill, simplest is put the front page first as 'index' and you main site page as 'splash'. In the the Splash page head put <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url='index.htm(l)'" /> and Preview. The Splash page will display for 5 second then automatically jump to the index page. The (l) depends if you publish .htm or .html.
The advantage is those who save the website URL without a page bypass the Splash altogether.

You could set the whole graphic to also have a jump Link to index to short-circuit the process.

It might be better to set up the index page with a Splash pop-up that appears on load and closes on X click.
Here too, you could make the whole Splash have a Close Link.
The advantage is the index page content is loading behind the scenes (sort of).

I would go further and set up LocalStorage to only show the Splash a limited number of times.
Add a Hide the Splash button to also control this.
You could add a Splash it! button on index to reset this.

Acorn

[Chris M]

I'll just leave this here.

>>> index (auzlink.net.au) <<<

[bwood]

I'll just leave this here.

>>> index (auzlink.net.au) <<<

Magic as usual Chris!

[bwood]

Thanks You Acorn!

[bwood]

I'll just leave this here.

>>> index (auzlink.net.au) <<<

Chris, question as always. I’m not understanding the length of the first page. Let’s say the page is w-1000, and length is a hero size, I’ll end up with white space after the image. If the first page is simply one image with text and a button do I stretch that image vertically to let’s say h=1000 or something. Mobile is no problem, but desktop and tablet page height is a problem. Thx