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The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines

I kind fo liked this...it was informative and really brought me back to the old designing stuff. It's been a while you know. You can get it here...for some more detail but here are the top 10. I am in violation of rule #1, 2, 3. My scores are in bold.

1. Emphasize what your site offers that's of value to users and how your services differ from those of key competitors (X)
2. Use a liquid layout that lets users adjust the homepage size (n/a...this one is really lame though...Readjusting screen is is kind of picky. I refuse to develop for 640x480 anymore.)
3. Use color to distinguish visited and unvisited links(X)
4. Use graphics to show real content, not just to decorate your homepage (X)
5. Include a tag line that explicitly summarizes what the site or company does (X)
6. Make it easy to access anything recently featured on your homepage(X)
7. Include a short site description in the window title (X)
8. Don't use a heading to label the search area; instead use a "Search" button to the right of the box (X)
9. With stock quotes, give the percentage of change, not just the points gained or lost (n/a...this is kind of stretching)
10. Don't include an active link to the homepage on the homepage (CHECK!!!)

So I got 1 out of ten.
I got 2 n/a's.
I need to do some work. My current agenda runs thus:

1. Search Engine
   
2. Finish the database you lazy bastard
   
3. Figure out new IA
   
4. Change the link roll overs
   
5. Meta Tags
   
6. XML/XSLT/RSS
   
7. Redesign

That's a long road to climb....but i got nothing but time right now...well at least 4 10 days and then they take my computer and my car and take my soul...blah blah blah

Link posted by JVMM : 6:57 PM