How do I open with an animated gif and then go to home page?

I apologize for the newbie question, but I would like to have
an animated gif intro to a web page. Is it possible to have the gif
play and then go to the index file? Or do I need to insert the gif
into an index file and save the home page as something different?
If so, how do I get it to go to the home page automatically?
Any help is appreciated.

>I apologize for the newbie question, but I would like to
have an animated
>gif
> intro to a web page.
This is called a 'splash page'. To do it, you'll make your
default home page
(index.html/default.html/whatever) this splash page, then
you'll have then
sent to whatever other page you want it to go to...either via
a HREF or a
META REFRESH tag.
You can't actually time the refresh to coincide with the gif
finishing it's
animation, though. For that, you'd have to use Flash
animation.
But keep in mind that this technique is pretty much frowned
upon these days.
It's an unecessary barrier betwen your users and your content
and is seen by
many as a rather dated/amateur technique.
-Darrel

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