GSCC Member Website Demo

This is for demonstration of the member websites

This is the area of the home page is where you would put content for your visitors to see what things about your business you are trying to convey Here you can express such things such as a custom hello, some information about what things are going on with your company right now.You know best - or should - what your audience wants. It then becomes an easy task to decide about which types of content will best serve their needs and how to go about finding or creating it. Here are some suggestions:

Importance of good homepages

The homepage is the most important page on most websites, and gets more page views than any other page. Of course, users don't always enter a website from the homepage. A website is like a house in which every window is also a door: People can follow links from search engines and other websites that reach deep inside your site. However, one of the first things these users do after arriving at a new site is go to the homepage.

How home pages are viewed in the business world

“Home pages are the most valuable real estate in the world. … A home page’s impact on a company’s bottom line is far greater than simple measures of e-commerce revenues. The home page is your company’s face to the world. … The home page is the most important page on most Web sites and gets more page views than any other page.”—Jakob Nielsen

How users view the homepage

For many users, the home page is a place where, if they get lost, they can start their journey again. Users often want to return to a site’s home page to reorient themselves. We often see this happen during usability testing. For a business, the home page offers an opportunity to communicate their value to the world—particularly as it relates to their products and services. Therefore, ideally, a home page should reflect and balance business objectives and user needs.

Content home page should have

Those are the only two things users care about on a home page. (Lots of designers try to make the home page serve other functions, such as [telling] the user about things the organization cares about, but the user doesn’t—such as financial news about the business or what new products are on sale—but users blow right past this content and pay no attention to it. We’ve found it’s all a waste of valuable design resources.) When business owners focus on just these two things on the home page, users tell us the site is substantially more usable.