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Example of
Starting Your 1st Web Site
Your homepage is usually the first contact the visitor makes with you. It must be impressive, yet to the point.
The following ideas/suggestions will contribute to your homepage (index.html) being effective:
Example of
Starting Your 1st Web Site
Your homepage is usually the first contact the visitor makes with you. It must be impressive, yet to the point.
Remember -
visitors decide in the first 4 to 10 seconds
whether or not to continue any further.
visitors decide in the first 4 to 10 seconds
whether or not to continue any further.
Keep in mind: Your visitors will come to your site for a single purpose. They come for answers or solutions, to buy or shop for products, and for general reference or research.
- Use a 1-sentence tagline that illustrates the whole purpose of the page and/or website. A good example of this would be here above - "Guidelines...a first impression."
- Group all company information into one unobtrusive section. Better yet, set up a link to an "About Us" page.
- Emphasize the top 5 tasks of your website. Narrow down your focus to 5 topics you cover thoroughly, even if there are many more than that.
- If your site has 10 or more pages, it would benefit you to provide a site map.
- On your homepage, provide examples of content within.
- Use descriptive, relative link words to make it easier for your visitor to know what that link is for.
- Point out recent features and provide a means to retrieve previous features.
- You want your navigation to be accurate and effective. You do not want the menu to be overpowering nor do you want it to be inaccessible.
- A lot of "surfers" disable their graphics while browsing; and a vast majority of PC users dismiss graphics completely as advertising. Even though the clip art may be right in front of them, the visitor may totally ignore them.
- Use meaningful graphics. Your graphics should be placed for emphasis not content. (NOTE-photos of real subjects are better than cartoons or animated images.)
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