Splash Pages: Why?

Ok so there are a few things that just get to me and one of those is splash pages that really don’t serve much of a purpose. I don’t mean to say I am the definitive word on site design, and I’m open to ideas from those who use them as to what benefit they see it providing.

For me I think a splash page ONLY works if:

A. you have to versions of your site and a viewer needs to choose where to go. ie. Corporate or Experimental or Low Bandwidth or High Bandwidth.

B. if your site is not done yet and it should rather be a coming soon page then a splash page.

It jsut doesn’t make any sense to me to have a page that lods up and then says enter… Yeah I wanted to enter that’s why I clicked the link to get to this site. It’s almost like you’re confirming I actually wanted to view your site. Like… Thanks for coming to our site, now are you really sure you want to see it? Sure you’re sure?

YES! that’s why I’m here… let’s get the show on!

thanks for the rant