Splash screen
Splash screen is a term used to describe an image that appears while a computer program is loading. Splash screens sometimes do not cover the entire screen, but only a rectangle near the center. The splash screens of operating systems and some applications that expect to be run full-screen usually cover the entire screen. Splash screens are typically used by especially large applications to notify the user that the program is in the process of loading. In other words, they provide feedback that a sometimes lengthy process is under way. Occasionally, a progress bar within the splash screen indicates the loading progress. A splash screen disappears when the application’s main window appears. Splash screens typically serve to enhance the look and feel of an application or web site, and hence are often visually appealing, and may also have animations, graphics and sound. On the Internet, a splash screen or splash page is a page of a web site that is a sort of pre-home page front page.
