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Everyone remembers those horrible splash pages that appeared when going to websites back in the 90s. Good web designers these days know to stay clear of such mindless extra clicks, yet somehow we have come to be OK with a little extra clicking as long as we might possibly need something that is promoted on the splash page.

Thus seems to be the case with some music artist’s websites. While looking through the Billboard Hot Christian Songs list this week, I noticed that out of the top five artists on their list, mind you these are the top five artists with the best songs this week; three of the musician’s websites had a “splash page”.

Whether it is a single solitary page to promote their newest album, or a chance to win a Wii by joining a mailing list, why would anyone come back to a site where the web designer behind it cares nothing about people’s time. The main reason splash pages went away was because of the time it took away from the user, causing them to go elsewhere on the web. My guess is that either there is a trend starting, allowing “splash pages” to be OK again if it offers something to the user, or that only Christian artists are having this issue because they’re holding out for cheaper designers to work as unto the Lord, as a ministry.