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I don't have a tutorial on hand, but it's pretty easy. You're basically recoding your recent entries page without touching the rest of your journal, via a .lj-view-recent .element hack. The easiest way is to set your journal entries to display only one, then code your recent entries page so that your visible entry is more or less a blank page. Full width, full height, only bare basics (like backgrounds and such) set.
So where you'd edit .entry in your CSS, you make a new section, name that to .lj-view-recent .entry; that'll affect only the recent entries view and leave your flist/day view/tags list in whatever layout you've already picked, so in the most bare-bones fashion, it should look something similar to this in an extremely, extremely simplistic form:
.lj-view-recent .entry {background:green;}
.entry {background:white;}
Doing that makes your flist/day view/etc entry backgrounds white, while your recent view has green backgrounds, if that makes sense. So what you want to do is set almost all of the view-recent elements to display:none. Do that for every element until you've cleared your elements/gotten your mostly-blank page. You want to get to the point where you can have an entry display, but that is the ONLY thing that shows and it's entirely unformatted.
Then, in your layout CSS, you'll set up the classes for your splash page. If you need a background image, it's best to set that on the .lj-view-recent .entry class. Get your classes, then code up your splash page in a forward-dated entry, and there you go.
.... and I really hope that makes any kind of sense.