Why is the last homepage design?

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Author: qianniu | published: (edit) Kent. Zhu | time: 22:53:08 text size:-+

In the n-plus projects I have done, there is basically a strange circle that cannot be run-it is difficult to design the homepage. According to the schedule, the homepage must be displayed on time. Otherwise, you cannot review or test the homepage. Therefore, the home page can only be redesigned continuously in the future work. In addition, I found that the homepage can be adjusted only after the entire product is finished.

Think carefully, why does the website need the homepage? Because the content needs to be indexed, the task needs an entry. From any angle, the home page is the central point of the entire system. Perhaps this topic has to be magnified to the revision.

For earning pocket money six years ago, I often receive private activities similar to "re-designing the homepage of XX Website. What can be done is simply to adjust the layout, plate, optimize the font, line spacing, and so on based on the existing content. Now it seems to be a small problem in the scope of "information design. Although I have not received professional training and my professional knowledge combined with my Personal Aesthetic, I have done better than many "designers.

Four years ago, I made an interactive entertainment portal website and made three major revisions within three months. The result is worse than once. I think the key is that you should not change the homepage first. Changing the home page is indeed prone to "political achievements", but frequent changes are a disaster for users. If this happens, they still think they are going wrong or what happens to the website.

Any revision will result in data fluctuation, because users are not suitable for users in a short period of time due to the influence of user habits. However, if it is a good revision, the data should be restored within two weeks and the trend of gradual improvement can be seen. The content on the home page should be guaranteed to be absent, but it is better to gradually supplement the content than to go back and forth, and should not be preemptible to develop "specifications ". For specific reasons, refer to the suggestion in the comparison. "When a major change is made, the user will focus on which changes are good. When a minor change is made, the user will pay more attention to which changes need to be made ."

Therefore, the lighter the revision, the smaller the movement, and the less impact the user. The full-site revision should follow the "bottom-up" principle, starting with the most basic functions of the structure, and ending with the Home Page. The single-page revision should follow the "from the inside out" principle, start with the smallest module at the bottom of the structure, and end the page layout. We are familiar with the following ideas, but the old ideas are not completely wrong:

"The style of the homepage is fixed, and the whole site will be ready ."

Is that true? No. However, this starting point has made a "Wind-centered" mistake. Because the first thing a user wants is not style, but information and content. The content to be stored on the home page must be extracted from the organizational unit of each lower-level organization. The home page is born under the premise of the unreliable information structure. The life cycle can be imagined.

"The homepage is the first page that the user can see ."

Is that true? Not necessarily. It is important to analyze different types of products, such as news websites taking the media route, department store websites taking the business route, and home pages, however, most of the visits must come from the underlying content and product information pages. The products that provide services are different. For example, if you have a private mailbox, the most important thing is that you only log on to the homepage.

"Homepage design best reflects the standards of web designers ."

Is that true? Indeed. Because the premise of doing a good job on the homepage is to do a good job of the whole site, at the same time, designers must accurately grasp the transmission points and guide different task behavior flows. The home page is just the name of the default page, which is the same as that of index and default. However, different types of products must have different focuses. For example, is the logon box directly placed on the home page, or is it just a link to guide? The specific situation needs to be analyzed. For another example, I stubbornly think that direct introduction is the best homepage of my website, and there is no need to "talk about" myself.