I'm not impressed by Flash splash pages. The few genuinely beautiful ones like Karimoku employ Flash for a few cheap (and oddly ugly) effects. The actual page

I'm not impressed by Flash splash pages. The few genuinely beautiful ones like Karimoku employ Flash for a few cheap (and oddly ugly) effects. The actual page designs could be managed in HTML. Others, like DyDo Drink, are visually derivative to the point of being rather retro (and obnoxious when navigation starts happening due to mouse-overs).