The splash screen must be an HTML file, but renaming a jpeg to HTML doesn't make it HTML.
My recommendation is this.
1) Upload the image you're working with (for the sake of this, let's call it splash.jpeg) to your Admin File Uploader. This will place the file in http:
//dkpfiles.com/aoa/files/splash.jpeg
2) Right click and save the attached file, and open it up in notepad to tweak it. If it looks funny (all on one line), try using
Notepad++There you can edit the colors or whatever you need to. The links right now will be bright red, and you'll probably want to tone those colors down a bit.
The attached splash page is a modified version of the old
DKPSystem.com Splash Page