Designing a Homepage

The homepage is critical! It is the first impression users have of your website! Some basic principles for designing your homepage are:

• Enable users to access your homepage from any page on your site.
• Present all major options on your homepage.
• Treat your homepage as the key to conveying the quality of your site.
• Clearly and prominently display the purpose of your site.
• Keep text to a minimum.
• Make sure the homepage looks like a homepage.
• Limit the homepage to one screenful.
• Announce major changes to your site on the homepage.