jsinger - 2:58 am on Jul 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

Don't do it.

Take a real brick/mortar store as an example. On a nice day we'd open our door and traffic would go way up (so would heat/AC loss and maybe shoplifting!). Stores in large enclosed malls never have traditional doors, just gates to lock the store at night.

Tent sales are even better. no door or walls, just a canvas top and a few poles!

Likewise we want people to easily enter our ecommerce site thru the main page and thru the walls (interior pages) too.

As a shopper, I run from any commerce site that has a flash intro page. You know the whole process is going to be slow.