A good solution to your problem would be to use a maintenance mode plugin. These plugins will show a splash page to your visitors, but allow administrators full access to the site.
You can find these plugins in the Plugin Repository, for example:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/
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