Info about Web Pages
Does home-page design affect usability?
Yes! It is the obvious answer to this question. The home page design of the web page would drastically affect the usability of the web page.
The web analytics and the test results show that the people simply just don’t read. You might try to overload the homepage of your website in some sort of corporate culture but as much information as you place at the homepage it will make your message to become messy.
It is a huge job to redesign and redevelop the home page but making use of your marketing copy might make life easier for you. You should look for something through which you may try to write the things using half as many words.
• Make the look of the links Clickable
In the home page most of the texts are links to other pages. This is the only page in the entire web site which would contain most of the links. It is hence important to help the users know about the links.
Around the year 2000 people really started to become bore of the typical blue colored underlined links. From the designing point of view it looks right that there should be some sort of variety, but still people want more changes and as soon as we deviate from the path it would become less understandable for people where to click.
If you are not following the traditional way just try to make the links blue or underline them in some different color from the text. You should not also use other types of emphasis.