I would like an initial 'splash' page - a page with two images to point to two separate sites. One of the sites is another domain on another server. Question: Can I have this index.html page point to an index.php page in the same folder (the site is Joomla) Which order will the pages be searched for? PHP or HTML? I hope this makes sense. Thanks for your help.
You have to set the default document for this folder on the server. you can set it to any doc you want and enter multiple doc names and order them by precedent. So if you enter index.php as your default page, that's the page that will come up. If you entered index.html as the second page on your list, and index.php is no longer in that folder, then index.html will come up by default. As far as having two images on a page and having one link to another site and the other link to a page within your site, can't you just do that with a simple hyperlink? I think you definitely forgot to mention some things in your question.
It depends on how the Joomla scripts are written whether this will be easy or complicated. Some scripts href home as index.php and some href it as the root of the directory. When you set the default doc to html, returning to root of the directory will display the html page.
Question: Can I have one of the images on this index.html page point to an index.php page in the same folder (the site is Joomla). I hope this is clearer.