Seo for flash home page?

[peaceland]

I have a client who insists their home page be a single graphic image of their logo with php menus linking to all of the other pages up top. This appears to me to be an seo nightmare. They seem to be unwilling to have anything to do with changing the appearance and want to rely on seo for "all the other pages" on the site.

What's an SEO to do in this situation? Is it possible to have a flash image that lands on a "homepage" for google to crawl, rather than a single image? What's the best seo approach here?

[timwills]

All depends on what the client wants the page to do, and how it is designed.

A quick google of "jquery splash page" gets you this

http://meerkat.jarodtaylor.com/how-to/meerkat-splash-page/

That's a basic splash page using jqeury, which times out to the main content. Google will ignore this "page" and head straight for the rest of the site. OK, so its not exactly what your client wants but you could add CSS menus in the meerkat content div and have no (or a very long) timer on it, which would get you what the client sounds like they are after.

Thats with 2 mins of googling. Probably much better solutions out there, but like I say, it all depends on the design and your crazy client

[peaceland]

Is there a site(s) you can recommend I look at for this purpose? Really appreciate it. Actually, their menus are javascript (Vista Buttons).

[timwills]

What to do? Assuming you've done all you can to convince them not to do it?

Clever use of jquery and CSS menus can get a homepage that looks like an old school flash landing page, but still allows google to crawl through it and get into the site.