How to design a homepage?
“Professional Homepage Layout Website Design” is a part of our webdesign tips series. This webdesign-articles resource has been created for the webdesign community, web designers and programmers, as well as website design tips for small business.
The aim here is to plan the web site’s homepage (also known as “the central hall”, as I mentioned earlier in “Dealing with Web Site Design Structural issues”) that forms a balance in the amount of information and the number of graphic elements, for creating a pleasant, successful user experience.
For creating a pleasant and professional website design, a clean, neat design line is to be used, which conveys the messages clearly, while creating gentle dynamism using Flash technology, which conveys the image message while reflecting the company’s fields of activity.
The user must not be overloaded with unlimited amounts of information, but guided to the information he is searching.
How to design a homepage?
Here are the main elements for creating a professional web site design homepage layout:
• The page is to be divided into a number of primary areas that emphasize the design and textual messages, such as a flash clip, news and selected updates, main and secondary menus and original icons directing one to other areas, such as a site map, help with site, etc.
• A Flash clip that promotes the image of the company as a company that spearheads the technology in its field is serious, professional and dynamic, while conveying a message that supports the dynamic field of activity.
• A Help clip. If the user clicks Help, he gets to watch a clip depicting a person talking with the user and leading him through a tour of the site and explaining the site by problem selection menu. This module is innovative and advanced and makes the browsing experience dynamic and interesting while strengthening the personal contact with the user.
• A main browsing menu that directs the users to main categories, in centers, which opens the links to a second level of secondary links and sub-centers (also known as “the secondary halls”, as I mentioned earlier in “Dealing with Web Site Design Structural issues”).
• Quick links to the various information centers we are interested in promoting and covering in order to create some order in the user’s conception of the content in the we site. Quick links also provide the user rapid access to important, necessary information, as indicated by statistics.
• A search engine accompanying all pages of the site and appearing, of course, in the introduction pages.
• The current date is to be displayed in a fixed current manner.
• News and events are displayed in different manners, scrolling or alternating.
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