Often, deciding what content graces a web-site\u2019s home is the most difficult portion of mapping out a project. Why? In many ways, the home page is a nebulous entity. We all know what goes on News, Portfolio, Contact, etc. However, there is no formula for what belongs on the home page.<\/p>\n
A List Apart<\/a> has published Home Page Goals<\/a> by Derek Powazek, a short read with useful reminders that urge designers to think critically about new and repeat visitors\u2019 experiences online.<\/p>\n When visiting a website, new visitors<\/strong> are asking, What is this place?<\/em> Powazek pints out that you\u2019ve got about 3 seconds to answer this question \u2013 3 seconds! How do you go about that?<\/p>\n The folks at 37signals offer promising direction, promoting big text<\/a> and lots of up front information (for example, take a gander at their home page<\/a>).<\/p>\n Also, repeat visitors<\/strong> musn\u2019t be bogged down by the home page. They should have a glimpse of what is new and have the option to quickly move on to sections they may want utilizing consistent and clear navigation.<\/p>\n Sure, many of the ideas put forth in Home Page Goals<\/em> are pretty basic and perhaps a repeat of knowledge most web designers posses. However, I plan to peek over this list each time I\u2019m designing a home page, as the ideas are instantly applicable and necessary to ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A List Apart has published Home Page Goals by Derek Powazek, a short read with useful reminders that urge designers to think critically about new and repeat visitors\u2019 experiences online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[163],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/newspace2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}