landing pages and social bookmarking

The trend of having a "splash" or landing page before someone enters your website is slowly going away. But not soon enough. While previously considered a mild annoyance, splash pages are a major hindrance to social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon. After all, how can you successfully assess a site's contents without being able to see past the front page? If you go to review a subpage, it creates a new bookmark altogether.

So here's a tip to web designers across the globe. Please drop the flash splash pages. They are so nineties, and it makes things difficult for social bookmarkers.