A Site Structure Pattern from
Patterns for Personal Web Sites

Useful Home Page

A site's home page will get the lion's share of the site's traffic. This isn't because people like home pages; rather, they've learned that when they need to find particular information, the home page is usually the best place to start their search. A home page is more important not as a place you come to, but as a place you leave from.

Therefore, make your home page useful.

Here are some ways to do this:

Making your home page useful is a way to Reward Visitors. If you want to give new visitors to your site a good first impression, create a separate Cover Page.

Keep the size of your home page small. The slower it loads, the less useful it is.



Last updated 17 June 2002
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