Title: adding intro page
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# adding intro page

 *  [Santusha108](https://wordpress.org/support/users/santusha108/)
 * (@santusha108)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-intro-page/)
 * Hello! I am quite new to using wordpress, yet my client wanted an intro page.
   if it is not too much to ask, would it be possible to give me a step by step 
   list on how to make this? Thank you!

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-intro-page/#post-1945617)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page)
 *  [Loke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanitys/)
 * (@zanitys)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-intro-page/#post-1945732)
 * You mean an animated intro? Like a short “welcome-movie”? Alright, to do that
   you´re gonna need a program to animate. I recommend adobe flash. Once you´ve 
   made an animation in flash you save it as an swf-file (That´s the normal file
   for flash-products). I think you can upload an swf-file to a site just like you
   would upload an image but I´ve never tried it so I´m not sure.
 * But listen, let me give you an important advice. And this is a big advice. In
   fact I think it might be one of the most relevant pieces of advice that you will
   ever get from this thread. Do I have your attention? Ok. Do _not_ make an intro-
   page. If you look up enough top-10 lists of bad things to out on a website you
   will find intropages has ranked high more than once. Intro-pages are cool the
   first time you go to a page but in the long run they just become annoying. They
   consume time for the page-viewer. Page-viewers don´t like to have to wait when
   they go to a site. In case your client has already made up his mind then ok, 
   that´s the clients problem, not yours, but try to talk him out of it.
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-intro-page/#post-1945817)
 * Loke – Don’t presume to know what the person wants based on such little information.
 * Intro pages are FINE, provided they’re not SPLASH pages. A well written, ‘static’
   intro page that doesn’t show a list of blog posts is perfectly fine, and is NOT
   on any top-ten list of bad site habits. I will grant you, SPLASH pages (i.e. 
   welcome shockwave thingies) ARE horrible.
 *  [Loke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanitys/)
 * (@zanitys)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-intro-page/#post-1945834)
 * Oh, I guess I misunderstood then. My bad.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Loke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanitys/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-intro-page/#post-1945834)
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