22/11/2021
🧩 The Puzzle of Home Page Design 🧩
✖️ Home page design isn’t just about headers, content, and footers.
✔️ It is about asking the right questions and making sure those questions apply to your website visitors.
✔️ It’s about finding solutions to problems and bringing it together within a cohesive design.
⁉️ HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED?
🔻 How do I make my website memorable?
🔻 How do I make sure people stick when they hit my home page?
🔻 How do I make sure website visitors dig into my content and explore my product or service offering?
🔻 How do I make sure website visitors take a moment to reach out to us by email, phone, or inquiry form?
❗️ If you read those questions and thought “yes that is exactly what I want to ask” then know you’re not alone.
❌ If you take a step back and read through the list, you’ll notice all the questions included I or ME. None of them focused on the visitor.
✅ BEST PRACTICE IN HOME PAGE DOESN'T INCLUDE ME OR I
✔️ Best practice in home page design is about website visitors, their needs, and their wants.
✔️ It is about your target market, what they need, and how your offering can help.
✖️ It isn’t about an idea that is cool or something you may have seen on four other websites.
⁉️ HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOURSELF?
🔸 Who comes to my website?
🔸 Are these visitors all similar or are they broken up into groups (website personas)?
🔸 What problems do these people have and what issues are they trying to solve?
🔸 Can my product or service offering solve these problems?
🔸 What content do I have that can best articulate my solution and provide assistance?
🔸 What next step should the website visitor take so I can help solve their issues?
🔸 How can the visitor and I stay in touch with each other?
🔸 Can the visitor easily contact me?
Now take those above questions and apply them to your existing website. How does your website answer those questions? If it doesn’t, it is time for a refresh.
❓ WHAT SHOULD YOU CONSIDER IN YOUR WEBSITE REFRESH?
Below is a list of some website design elements we review, discuss, and plan for in early stages of our projects:
🔹 Elements of a Website Header 🔹
🔸 Logo
🔸 Tagline
🔸 Social media icons and/or references
🔸 Search box
🔸 Primary navigation menu (core destinations)
🔸 Secondary navigation menu (secondary destinations such as account or login)
🔹 Elements of the Core Home Page 🔹
🔸 Rotator or static image
🔸 Video
🔸 Site introduction or overview
🔸 Featured content
🔸 Persona call out and directions for movement
🔸 Call to actions
🔸 Promotions and/or deals
🔸 Recent blog posts
🔸 Upcoming events
🔹 Elements of a Website Footer 🔹
🔸 Widgets for lists to core content
🔸 Contact information
🔸 Site navigation to sitemap, policies, terms and conditions
🔸 Disclaimers or legal notices
🔸 Copyright
🤯 That’s a lot stuff, right?
🙄 Yes, it is.
👉🏻 That's why we don’t expect new clients to have answers for all of the items in the list, it would be great if they’ve thought through some of it and how each would provide assistance for their target market and visitors.
👌🏻 If they haven’t, we're happy to walk through it with them and dissect the different elements and how they can help provide solutions for visitors.
🧩 WEB DESIGN IS A PUZZLE
AVEDSoft's "puzzle" definition is understanding our client’s target market, their visitors’ needs, their offering, and then making it all come together through website design. That puzzle changes with each new client and each new website. It stays fun each and every time.
❓ If you’d like us to help with your puzzle,
📩 just reach out to us and let us know how we can help.
💙 We’ll start with a whole lot of questions and then we’ll put the pieces together as we design your new home page.