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Adding Content To Your Home Page

 

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Day One

Introduction
Student Sites
Web Structure
Computer Settings
Site & Pages
Explore FrontPage
Web Site Wizard
Shared Borders
Web Page Themes
Page Header
Adding Text
Homework 1
Web Hosting 101
Web Site Design
Home Page Design

Day Two

Introduction
Your Home Page
Adding Pages
About Us Content
Add More Pages
Deleting Pages
Navigation
Link Bars
Custom Link Bars
Hyperlinks
Adding Hyperlinks
Hyperlink Exercise
Publishing
Copy Your Site
Homework 2

Day Three

Introduction
Bullet List
Numbered List
Tables
Table Uses
Create Tables
Graphics Intro
Image Sizing
Photo Editing
Adding Graphics
Photogalleries
Gallery Tool
Saving Images
Adding Music

Day Four

Form Wizard
Custom Form
Form Exercise
Form Properties
Web Components
Add a Map
Add Search Box
Marquee
Buttons
Hit Counter
Split & Code View
On-Line Sales
PayPal Buttons
Building Traffic
Meta Tags
Search Engines
Appendix & FAQs
Adv Techniques
Interactive Web
Conclusion
Evaluation

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Hands On Practice - Create Content For Your Home Page

Hopefully you had time to read Joel Walsh's excellent article on home page design considerations.  If not, be sure that you do at some point over the weekend.

Even though your home page is the first page in your site, it may end up being the last page you finish, and the page you revise more frequently.  Because the home page is the gateway to your web site, it needs to be inviting, compelling, and fresh.  The content should lead your visitors to navigate deeper into your site.

Another way to think about your Home Page content is pretend that you just stepped on the elevator with your most important prospective customer, and you have 60 seconds to tell this person what you do, and make it interesting enough that they would give you more time to look at your product in more depth.

Or another way to  look at this is:  What would you include in a 60 radio or TV commercial?  You want this page to be tightly focused on the most important aspects about what your business and this web site does, and why the visitor would want to linger and explore.

If you brought some of your marketing materials with you you might want to use them to help flesh out your home page.

At the very least, try to put an outline on your home page of main points, and fill in the content later.

Finally - if you are stumped, leave this until later.  By the time you are done, what you want to include will be more obvious.

 

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