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Old 05-17-2008, 08:29 PM
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Default The Best Home Page

It is often possible to get some good ideas by looking at what others have done. Maybe this will give a few of you some ideas.

Having a good home page, or homepage if you prefer, is important since it can often give visitors a good first impression of a site.

Members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences selects nominees for the Webby Awards and The People's Voice Award. They select the Webby Award winners. The online community votes to select The People's Voice Award winners.

Sometimes both select the same as the winners in a classification. Other times they don't agree and there are two different winners.

The 2008 Webby Award winner for Best Home Page is The Los Angeles Film School. Here is a link to their home page:

Los Angeles Film School

The People's Voice Award for 2008 in the Best Home Page category goes to National Geographic. Here is a link to their home page:

National Geographic - Inspiring People to Care About the Planet

You might be impressed by these home pages. It is also possible that you may not like one of them or even both of them. They might inspire some of you.

These are major award winning home pages, so they are at least worth checking them out to see what you think about them.
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Great resource Larry! Both sites are really dynamic and good food for thought.
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Most people would be impressed with the Los Angeles Film School homepage as well as the National Geographic home page. They were the Webby Award winner and the People's Voice Award winner.

Three other great homepages (home pages) were nominated. They might give you a few good ideas. Of course you shouldn't copy them. These three are also very impressive.

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Default Best Homepage Tips

Along with my 10 years of web design experience, there a 3 elements that I believe make a good home/web site:

1. Clean look - you never see Amazon or Microsoft with an extremely busy-looking home page.

2. Fast load time - there are still people on 56k, although the numbers are diminishing (thank God!). Regardless, compression of images and such to make your pages load fast are vital to your site.

3. Easy navigation - if a visitor cannot get back to any page within 3 clicks, the navigation needs to be reevaluated.

Those three elements implemented into your home page and overall web site will never steer you wrong.

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That sounds like very good criteria.

Liked all the sites, specially thought the one with the yellow boxes, that kinda peeled away as you moused over em was pretty clever.

Question, tho. The first one my browser wasn't right for it, not sure if that means I'm the oddball or they are.. hmmm maybe I shouldn't ask that question bout myself But....shouldn't a reallly good web site not be one that isn't made for most?? (there again...I could be the odd one and it really does apply to most )
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