Home design
After we fully consider the columns, link structures and overall styles, we can formally do the home page.
There is such a saying: "Good start is half of success".
The same is true on the website, the design of the homepage is the key to the success of a website. People often see the first page has a holistic feeling for your site. Is it able to encourage the visitor to continue to click on, can attract the viewer to stay in the site, complete the "skills" designed by the home page.
Therefore, the design and production of the homepage is absolutely paying attention to and spending. Abie's experience is: General Home Design and Production Accounting for 40% of the entire production time. You would rather spend more time in the early days, so as not to make it again, it will be the most wasteful thing.
Here, insert a "cover" problem first. The cover means there is no specific content, only one logo click to enter or only a simple graphic menu.
Do you need to design a "cover" for the site? Abie's personal point is: no need!
Unless you are a very art-class site, or can be confident that the content can attract the viewer to further click the entry site, otherwise, the home page of the cover will not give you the benefits of your site. We need to browse the fast and valuable information. If you wait for the XX minutes, only a rough "Enter" icon is displayed, then no one will wait patiently to go to the next page.
Because of the importance of the home page, Abie will focus on 8 articles to carefully discuss all aspects of the design of the home page. The approximate outline is as follows:
○ Tips for layout layout
○ Color match
○ Set of fonts and nested
○ Take advantage of skills
○ Consider different browsers and resolutions
○ Design your banner and location
○ Importance of Meta tags
○ Tedimentary small advice for home design
Today, it is just a primer for the home page design. Let us approach the steps of the home page design.
Home, fundamentally is the directory of the whole station, is an index. But it is just that the Lu Lu is obviously not enough, how do you design a homepage? The general step is:
● Determine the function module of the home page
● Design the layout of the home page
● Details of processing technology
One). Determine the function module of the home page.
The content module of the homepage refers to the main content and functionality you need to implement on the home page. The average site needs such a module:
Website Name (LOGO), Banner, Main Menu (MENU),
What's New, Search, Friend Link (LINKS),
Mail list (Mailist), Counter, Copyright.
Which modules are selected, which features are implemented, whether you need to add additional modules to be the first page design, first, you need to be sure.
2). Design home page
After the function module is determined, the layout of the home page is started. Just like a wooden, each module is a unit building block, how to fight out a beautiful house, just look at your creativity and imagination.
The best way to design the layout is to find a white paper, a pen, first out your ideal sketch, then use the web page to make software.
3). Details of processing technology
Abie often received the letter problem is: How do I make the homepage remain not deformate at different resolutions, how can I seem to be too ugly in IE and NC, how to set fonts and links .... Wait, Abie will introduce you in the following articles.
Home design is the difficulty and key to the entire website design, and Abie hopes to communicate with everyone, summarizing a more reasonable and easy-to-learn design method, which makes us easier to complete the design and production of the entire site. If you are willing to share your experience and everyone, please let me know Ajie@soim.com, thank you!
