What a good website and Web page needs to contain

Preface

Then, in this article, we will examine the content of the Dung Beatles band website to see what elements are needed for good web sites and Web pages.

You don't need to study the basics of Web sites and Web pages, but just look at different pages, think about what elements should be included, and think about key issues such as consistency, usability, and accessibility. The contents of this article are as follows:

• Home
  • What does this mean for our website?
• Navigation
• Some other common elements on the site
• Contextual relationships are very important
  • Related content
  • Title
• Availability of
• Accessibility
• Summarize
• Exercises

Home

A lot of people tend to think, "Let's start with the page that most users first visit--is that logical?" ”

It sounds logical, but it's not really like that. Focusing too much on the homepage is a common mistake that people make. The homepage of the website often becomes a hodgepodge, trying to generalize all the content of the website, all-encompassing.

Let's look at an example of such a homepage, which is the homepage of the MSN website (see Figure 1). This homepage lists a plethora of content and links from travel to television, dating to coaching, gadgets to green products, and very complex, trying to attract your attention.

Figure 1:msn Site's homepage-a list of links too much!

This "Put everything you Want" on the homepage, may be suitable for those large sites, but if our band site's homepage also this is certainly inappropriate, will lose a lot of users can be attracted.

There is also a general misconception that the homepage must be the first page seen by the person visiting the site. If these site visitors have learned about the band's Web site, or see the band's Web site from flyers, posters, or band badges, and then type the band's Web site in a browser, it is possible to first see the homepage of the site.

However, it is more likely that site visitors will access the site based on search results. If they search for the name of the band, it is likely (but not necessarily) that the top search results are the home page of the band's website. But in other cases, such as their search for "imitating The Beatles concert," The first results are likely to be the "tour date" page, and for example, when they search for "Moschow's band," the first search results may be "about the TDB Band" page, This is because the page mentions that the band is from Moschow, and the homepage does not mention it.

The New York Times website, in an article on the decision to stop charging users for accessing old content, said that the behavior of their site's visitors had changed, and what was the change, the article reads:

... More and more readers are accessing our site through search engines and links to other websites, instead of directly accessing NYTimes.com. Readers who visit the site in such an indirect way will not be able to access the articles that they need to pay to see, and they will be less likely to pay subscription fees than the loyal users who visit the site directly. Canceling the charge for accessing old content is an opportunity for users to access more Web pages and increase their advertising revenue.

What does this mean for our website?

This means you need to split the content and place it in a single page. You should think about how site visitors will find the content and information they are really looking for, or, once they start roaming on the site, what they want to visit the next page.

While many people are trying to put too much content on the home page, it's better to use the home page as a way to highlight the content of other pages in the site and to access the pages. Treat the home page like any other page and give it a definite purpose (that is, show updates, provide an overview of the site, simply introduce bands, let visitors continue to visit other pages, etc.). The home page also needs to have navigation bars that point to other pages and display the site's branding.

Here's what we'll learn more deeply.