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.