What is a Splash Screen?

Hi,
Been told as part of a university assignment i need to have a 30secs introductry Splash screen?
What is a splash screen?
Any tutorials on how to make them?
Thanks
Sam

a splash screen is a useless site component that was popular in the late 90's. a splash screen or intro is a boring and tiresome animation that drives users of your site away and makes your site virtually unsearchable by search engines. most commonly these splash screens are accompanied by a "skip intro" button which implies that intro itself is not important and can easily be skipped. Splash screens usually consist of logos spinning and scaling while useless text fades in and out. Examples of such text might be
prepare yourself
to be amazed
by what
you are about to see
never before has the internet
provided an experience such as this
between each phrase there is upwards of 5 seconds of wait time to leave the user literally teetering on the edge of their seat.
for more on the subject:
http://skipintros.com/
http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail51.html
http://www.shimonsandler.com/splash-pages-bad-for-usability-bad-for-seo/
Seriously, read the last article and ask your university instructor why he believes this is a worthy assignment in 2010.
Flash is great for animation but needs to be used in the proper context.

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I've got W540 (32GB RAM, 500GB HDD) running Windows 7.1 64bit that is constantly getting stalled at the ThinkPad splash screen during powerup.
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Thanks to the Mod!
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It appear tha some comand will let me regenerate the UUID, and with some luck, reflashing the bios will solve my problem.
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Using an IPAD 2 running 5.0.1 is frequently shutting down in the middle of a variety of Apps and showing the Apple splash screen for several minutes. This happens occasionally at inopportune times. Once the splash screen clears it goes back to the logon screen and the App that was open is closed. Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a resolution?

RockHunter wrote:
This happens occasionally at inopportune times.
I don't think that there is ever a good time for this to occur.
What do you mean the Apple splash screen? You see the Apple logo on the screen?
It appears as though your apps are crashing. Have you tried quitting apps and restarting? Reset the iPad?
Quit all apps and restart. Go to the home screen first by tapping the home button. Quit/close open apps by double tapping the home button and the task bar will appear with all of you recent/open apps displayed at the bottom. Tap and hold down on any app icon until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner to close the apps. Restart the iPad. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
Reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.

Launch a splash screen when an iPhone app starts

Hi, I am trying to make a simple game for the iPhone, and when the app launches, I want a splash screen with instructions to come up. I also want the user to be able to push anywhere on the screen to dismiss it. However, the splash screen doesn't load! I made a new nib file with the splash screen, created a view controller, and a UIView subclass for the screen. Then, I inserted this code into the applicationDidFinishLaunching method of the app delegate:
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
[window addSubview:[splashViewController view]];
splashViewIsCurrentView = YES;
[window makeKeyAndVisible];
- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event {
if(splashViewIsCurrentView) {
[[splashViewController view] removeFromSuperview];
[window addSubview:[gameViewController view]];
splashViewIsCurrentView = NO;
I forgot to mention, in interface builder, I made the splash view's class as SplashView, and the File's Owner as the SplashViewController. Also, splashViewIsCurrentView is a boolean I made.

I like the idea behind your use of "splashViewIsCurrentView". I think that may solve my problem.
I too have a full-screen instruction view pop up over the main input view of the app. The instruction view is added as a subview of the main input view. I want to dismiss the instruction view with a touch. However, in the instruction view view controller, the touch even methods are not fired - even after twiddling with enabling user interaction on the instruction view and its subviews of label and fiddling with their frame sizes. While the instruction view is displayed over the main input view, the touch events are actually still associated with the main input view (and its controls) underneath. Seems like I am forgetting something but i don't know what.
Your solution will probably work well and it is similar to what I was originally doing in handling the touch events in the main input view view controller. However, technically, it seems kludgy to not be able to handle the touch events in the instruction view view controller where it seems to make more sense to do so.
Would you or anyone else know why or have any suggestions on things to look out for? The view and controls involved are all supposed to be descendants of UIResponder. Is there a bug or restriction I'm not aware of? Wondering why you went the route you did. Seems like you may have run up against what I am currently facing.

Muse CC freezes at the first splash screen

I have never seen what Muse interface looks like. Whenever I tried to launch it, it tried to update and update failed all the time. However, recently I switched off my zone alarm firewall and was able to install the updates. Now Muse cc splash screen shows up, prompts me to sign in but after I sign in, nothing happens. The splash screen freezes. Interestingly, in my creative cloud app, Muse is listed in the not-installed application section but shows 'up-to-date', and there's no cc appears after Muse. My installed application secton has no Muse icon either! I chated to the help desk and tried deleting MBLStore and OODB folder, uninstalling program and re-installing from latest_win exe file with no success. I am using Windows 7 pro 64 bit in my macbook pro retina's bootcamp drive. Can anyone suggest what else I should try?

Hi Sachin,
I created another account with administrative right and Muse worked perfectly after apdating itself. Now, it is not possible for me to log in to that account everytime I use muse. If it is a confirmed permission issue, then can you please tell me how to set up right permission level so that Muse works regardless of any account?
Also the status of Muse displayed in my CC app doesn't feel right. It is showing up in the app list that I didn't install yet with an 'up to date' icon. Moreover, although everytime I launch Muse, Muse CC opens but for unknown reason, my CC app shows only Adobe Muse, not CC. May be there's something wrong with my CC app as well?

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