Comments on: Are Home Pages Dead? Where Are Your Visitors Going?

By: Design Entry Pages Not Home Pages | Search Engine People | Toronto

Design Entry Pages Not Home Pages | Search Engine People | Toronto — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:46:43 +0000

[…] in the same month, Joanna Pineda took up the same theme in Home Pages Dead? Where Are Your Visitors Going? I started checking our usage reports. Sure enough, the home page of this blog gets between […]

By: Joanna M. Pineda

Joanna M. Pineda — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:45:48 +0000

Hey Rick! Thanks for the comment! Actually, over here at Matrix Group, we’re now experimenting with designing sub-pages first, and then the home page. It doesn’t work for all clients, but we actually have a couple of clients who have agreed to be out guinea pigs as we experiment with this new format. I’ll keep you posted on the results!

By: Rick Stratton

Rick Stratton — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:29:31 +0000

Thanks for the link.

I went a little over the top for effect. Of course the homepage isn’t dead.

But who designs the interior pages first and then the homepage? No one.

By: Garry

Garry — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:20:41 +0000

I agree. In several of our recent web development efforts, we have been driving much more towards taxonomy driven IA, maximizing SEO, and implying calls to action on multiple pages.

While the homepage will never “die”, I see its importance growing smaller, and the value of a website’s content and accessibility of that content growing larger. But, statistically, the homepage is still one of the most highly used pages on your site, so it had better be nothing less than great. Information packed, a great introduction to your organization, and present the user with options.

Garry