Meta refresh

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META refresh is a META tag in HTML langauge which redirects the browser to a location specified in the web page. It can be timed.

example:

<HTML> <META http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL="http://www.wikipedia.org"> <HEAD> <TITLE>Redirecting you to wikipedia.org...</TITLE> </HEAD> </HTML>

This code redirects the browser to http://www.wikipedia.org in 10 seconds. You can change the time by changing the number before the URL. Note that there should be a ; between the number and the URL. You can have any title.