Monday, March 3, 2008

what's on a home page?

I'm having trouble deciding what I want my home page to contain, content-wise. There are about three subpages that would normally have content that I feel could also act as logical stuff to throw on the home page, but I'm worried that if I do that then it would take away from the subpages since I would only have 5 of them. Basically, I don't know if I want the home page to have some biographical info about myself, a few random photos that would change automatically, contact info, or anything from the subpages.

I would love to do something with flash, like make a quick montage of photos or images and text or something like that, that would only show up on the homepage, so i could leave the info to the subpages, but I obviously don't know how to do this yet.

Did anyone else have this problem?

1 comment:

Kristin said...

Yeah, I know what you mean. Right now I just have dummy text, and I realized that anything I put on the home page could go in my "about" or "news" sections. For a DJ, your home page could include some news-y information, like a list of your next appearances, and maybe a sentence or two about what kind of DJ you are. Home pages are supposed to be relatively brief, but current, so I would maybe blend the info from some of your sub pages into a mix of information that can be updated regularly, but still give people a good idea what you're all about.

On a side note, does anyone know what format we are turning our Web sites in as? There's no folder on the server for them.