Home Design best reflects the standard of web designers

I have done in the n many projects, basically have a run not open the circle-home is difficult to design. According to the schedule, the home page must be out on time, otherwise can not review, also cannot test. Therefore, the homepage can only in the follow-up work continuously redesign. And I found that it is often necessary to complete the entire product after the home adjustment is completed.

Think carefully, why does the website need the homepage? Because the content requires an index, the task requires a portal. At any angle, the home page is a central point throughout the system, far-reaching. Perhaps, this topic must enlarge to the revision view.

Six years ago to earn pocket money, often received similar "redesign XX website home" chat. Can do, nothing but is based on the content of the tune layout, plate, optimize the font, line spacing now seems to be purely "information design" category of small problems. Although no professional training, their professional knowledge combined with personal aesthetic, but also more than a lot of "designers" do well.

Four years ago to do an interactive entertainment portal site, within three months of three major revisions. The result is one less than once, the reason, I think the key is not to change the first home page. Changes to the home page is indeed easy to "political performance", but frequent changes to the user is a disaster, do not think that go wrong, or the site what happened.

Any revision will produce data shocks, because of the impact of user habits, a short period of time users are not suitable. But if it is a good revision, the data should be restored within two weeks and the trend of gradual improvement can be seen. The contents of the home page should be guaranteed to Ningquewulan, slowly supplement always better than back and forth, should not prejudge the formulation of "norms." Specific reasons, can refer to the point of view of the implied "big change, the user will focus on what changes are good, small change, users will pay more attention to what needs to be changed." ”

Therefore, the revision is the lighter movement, the smaller the movement to the user impact less. Full station revision should follow the "bottom-up" principle, first from the structure of the most basic function, home end; one-page revision should comply with the "from the Inside Out" principle, first from the structure of the inside of the small module, the page layout finally. The following views are not unfamiliar to us, but the old ideas are not completely wrong:

"Home style set down, the whole station is good to do." ”

Is that so? Not at all. But this starting point has made the "style-centric" error. Because the user first wants is not the style, but the information and the content. Home need to put the content must be extracted respective subordinate organizational units, the entire information structure based on the premise of the birth of the first home, life cycle imaginable.

"Home is the first page users see, sloppy not." ”

Is that so? It's not necessarily. Have to be based on different types of products to specific analysis, such as the media route news site, take the business route of the department store site, home is very important, but most of the traffic must come from the bottom of the content and commodity information page. Services to provide different products, such as the privacy of the mailbox, the most important affirmation is only the first page login.

"The homepage design most can reflect the standard of the web designer." ”

Is that so? It's true. Because the premise of a good home page is to do the whole station, at the same time, designers must be precise grasp the point of communication, guide the different task behavior flow. Homepage just default to enter the page of the name, and called Index,default tradition, but different types of products need to highlight different focus. For example, the login box directly on the home page, or only link to guide? The specific situation needs specific analysis. Again for example, I stubbornly think that direct introduction is the best homepage of personal website, no need to "about" themselves.