About Web Design Book - Chapter 9

Start out the design with a header and tagline.

Get some navigation onto the page to make it look more complete.

Content-focused sites do well with content on their home page.

Moving forward with a different design.

Adding content and images to the second design idea.

Get ideas for designs from other Web sites.

People don't come to your site through the home page.

See how different companies handle their home pages.

The McAfee home page.

Just creating a cool site isn't enough. It needs to be usable.

Learn what you need to know to track the page views on your Web site and do Web analytics.

Don't waste the space on your home page.

Learn the basics of good design by looking at pages that suck.

Several articles and information for speeding up your Web pages.

Websiteoptimization.com recommends that you avoid the splash page as your home page.

Learn the pros and cons of splash pages, so that you can decide whether you want to use them or not.

Fake out equal length columns on your Web site with faux columns.

A free HTML layout using CSS to generate a 3-column page with a header and footer.

You need your site to meet your goals, but you can't forget the customer. If you don't meet their goals, they will leave and not come back.