Creation of Home Page - What About Design

What About Design

Rich in Top/First Page	Attention to Index Consider kinds of information to be available at a glance Dispaly the Renewal Date Message to Netsurfer whether the page is active or not Use Access Counter Barometer of popularity, but sometimes ineffective Description of Inquiry Address if you wish Put E-mail Address as an image format if needed. In case you put it as an text format the Robot would easily search your e-mail address and somebody will attack you by junk mails. Less volume Slow loading (much volume on page) will be disliked (consider the user who uses low capacity cable) Regignation before full display Page in English Users are in the whole world If possible, prepare a Summary of Top Page or each page Add a sentence in English 'In detail send a message or contact by E-mail.'
Consistency in Pages	Style, Characters, Symbols, and colors should be keep consistencies throughout the pages.
Color	Black characters in white background is easy to read and understand.
Utilization of Visual Images	Small visual images will be useful, while the size of one image will be less than 20KB in capacity.
Data Volume in One Page	Not less, but not much. Data Volume in one page Advantage Disadvantage Long Easy to print in one time. Slow speed access Short High speed acces Increasing in the number of pages, and clicks.
Depth of a Page	Not too much depth ! (Give up with clicks!)
Preparation of Navigation	Consider No distractions in the home page. Prepare Index.
Consider Barrier Free	Consider the peripherals for the blind and the deaf such as display with braille capabilities, voice synthesizer, etc. Not too much visual images Add sentences to images In detail, refer to 'kokoro-web' (http://www.ibm.co.jp/kokoroweb/tips)

Renewal/Updated: 05/12/97