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Using Personal Homepages
Personal Homepages are the most important interface between the Personal websites and the net Surfer / User; wherein the former guides the surfer thro’ the website as to how to find out the information the User is looking for. It is the first page of the website, which should open up with the URL or http:// link of the website, when a User logs in. The design of any Personal websites should be such that on the first log-in, the ‘homepage’ should open up, which gives the detail of the site road map. In a nut-shell, the Personal homepage become the route map of the said Website; and it should be lucid and simple in its structure and form, so that any first time user can also get through the site smoothly. In short the Personal homepage defines the ‘user-friendliness’ of the site; which determines the success or purpose of the sites, since more simpler and menu-driven the ‘homepage’ is, the better would be the acceptability of the sites by the Users and more hits would imply success of the sites.
Hence designing the homepage is like structuring the index of an encyclopedia; where the search for any information begins with understanding the index first and thus knowing where to look for the desired information. Likewise, when any Personal website is designed, the ‘homepage’ should be designed keeping in mind, what kind of Users would be searching the site, what kind of information would they be looking for, would there be any interactive or dynamic page requirement or the Users would be only specified techie users with required knowledge. Also it depends on the kind of information the site would like to share about its Personal profile, since if the information is not adequate or accurate or not clear to any generic or normal user, then the very purpose of the site creation would be defeated.
Thus any developer working on any Personal website, must understand the Personal requirement and the purpose of the site, wherein the homepage would essentially be required to be designed likewise, to give the most effective impact as well serve the purpose of giving the most relevant information about the site with the site tour or roadmap.
Homepage for any Personal sites is also the link between any other URL or linked sites, which guides any User directly to any other sites / locations thro’ either direct link or CGI BIN (common gateway interface binary link) protocol. Thus the homepage serves as the gateway to other linked sites, which may not be having a well-defined homepages or direct URL, thereby creating a site with many portals at an economic cost.
Personal homepages indeed serve as one showcase of personal profile and the facial of the entire website, which decides the level of acceptance of users or surfers. A personal homepage differs from a business one, which is more tacit and generic in its features, unlike a personal one, which may be more subjective.
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