The importance of a 'Home Page' for a website design doesn't require any explanation. 'Home page' of a website design is like the face of a company. 'Home Page' is the first page that every visitor see as soon as they enter the website design. So it is important that the Home Page be made in such a way that it not only grabs the attention of the visitors to the website but also it can convince them to continue with the website.

This article is to provide some tips in order to make a good and effective 'Home Page':

# The first thing that a visitor see as soon as they enter the website design is the 'Title' or the 'Headline'. That is why it is important that the website design should have good and very strikingly impressive titles. Most website design company spend most of the time in order to develop a good title for the website. It is also found that many visitors remembered the title of the website design and so they returned to the website design. Most website owner uses some punch lines as the title so that the visitors can see and remember those.

# The color scheme and the font color on the 'Home Page' of the website design be made in such a way that it can impress the visitor to continue viewing the entire website design. They shouldn't look stark. the font color, along with the background color must be made in such a way that it looks attractive, eye catchy and above all, professional.

# It is also essential that the 'Home Page' of the website design be made small so that it takes less amount of time in order to get downloaded. It is found that many website design companies prefers using flash animations in order to grab the attention of the visitors to the website which is not at all a bad. But these files takes good amount of time in order to get downloaded and hence it can make the visitor wait. As a well known fact of web industry, it is known that every visitor stays with the website for not more than 15 seconds. If the home page takes good amount of time in order to get downloaded then there are high chances that even before the home page opens the visitor might leave the website. So think about it.

# The contents of 'Home Page' of the website design be made in such a way that the goal of the website is crystal clear to the visitors to the website. The contents must be focused towards the purpose of building such a website design. Apart from that the contents of the website design must be embedded with 'Keywords' so that it can help the website ranking as well.

# If the website is related to selling business then right from the 'Home Page' brand building should start and the 'Home Page' should guide the visitors to those pages of the website design where all the information about products and the services are stored. If the website is made to build some idea, then it should also start right from the 'Home Page' of the website design.

# The 'Home Page' needs to be aesthetically superb. This is to say that the 'Home Page' should be balanced and website design company should refrain from using those, related to image or texts, that can scare away the visitors. There should be no offensive picture or offensive statement against anybody onto the website design.

# The 'Home Page' needs to be designed in such a way that it can guide every visitors through the entire website. More interactive is the website, more it will attract the visitors towards it.

Conclusion:

Home page is the 'Face' of the company. It is the first thing that the visitor see as soon as they enter the site. Needless to mention, 'First impression is the last impression'.