he homepage of a website acts as a base for most of the
is the logical point of navigation throughout the site.
entry into the web pages in Some of the designs use the home
a site. It connects as well as page to steer audiences into
interconnects all other pages in subtopics or highlight areas of
the website. Basically users can the site. There are many kinds of
enter your site from any of your home pages with varying goals and
web pages as they are indexed in target visitors. Some of them are
search engines. Therefore it is meant for selling products and
important that on all your web services, couple to sway public
pages there must be a link back opinion and others to educate or
to your home page so that users discussion on various topics.
can go back to the beginning or
homepage of your site in case Primarily, there are the few
they got lost or stuck somewhere. common web pages design
strategies:-
Home pages being the prime
location of any website is used Menu home pages: In the early
for lot many different functions years of web; menu-like lists of
depending on the purpose of the links is the most common design
site. Because of the high on most home pages and is still
visibility of the home page it is the popular home page design
perfect place for posting news format. Such pages are mostly
and information. It is the ideal dominated by graphic imagemaps as
place for the table of contents they are more space efficient, as
and menu of links in the site. In it packs maximum number of links
the sites using home page for into every square inch of the
news and menu listings, the page.
navigation schemes are often
centered on the home page; which Splash home pages: Generally,
splash pages are considered
controversial presentation, News-oriented home pages: Home
reason is; to numerous visitors pages of the news oriented
as they focus on particular organizations are the obvious
contents, splash gives an examples of such format. Many
annoying experience. If it is organizations utilize the high
that necessary, then there should visibility of their home pages to
be a site index at the start make to announce the latest on
along with the pretty graphics the happenings to the larger web
and animated stuff. The rule of audience. Such live format makes
the thumb-design according to a home page more attractive and
target audience expectations as more likely to keep attracting
splashing on the sports site is visitors.
different from that of a Casino’s
site. Complex amalgam of all the above
said pages: Increasingly home
Path-based home pages: In large pages are becoming a complex
websites there is massive amalgam of all the above said
information for the visitors, strategies. As the goals for most
that information is be impossible web sites are to transmit
to present in a single home page. information and also to
As visitors too have their communicate effectively with
specific interests and goals, potential clients and general
this translates to general rule, visitors. Home pages now mix
“it’s always good to use home images, menu lists, and special
page to split the links to interest sections according to
content” in accordance with the the flavour of the site. As most
users interests so that they get of the corporate and
more relevant information in the institutional home pages always
menu pages. display a graphic banner across
the top of the home page, and the
commercial sites are rapidly google_color_border =
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using large graphic menus takes
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About the Author:
Alex Roderick The author is Business Head for The Web Design Company, http://www.webdesigningcompany.net . It deals in web site design, website redesign, flash, 3D animation, logos, Banner Adds etc.
