This document provides guidance on creating an effective homepage for a website. It lists typical homepage content such as navigation, company logo, key details, latest news, relevant images, contact details. It emphasizes that the homepage needs to make a good first impression on users, who typically judge a site's quality within six seconds. The document instructs students to use a template to build their homepage, adding relevant text, images, and rich media, and to describe their homepage in a planning form.

1. Creation – Home Page
Lesson 22

2. Lesson Goals
 Know the expected content of a website homepage
 Understand the importance of a good first impression
 Be able to create an effective home page for your site
#homepage
#setup

3. Assessment Criteria
 The assessment criteria for this part of the unit is as follows:
LO3 – Create a new functional multi-page website
P3
Demonstrate web authoring skills by creating a new competent functional
multi-page website that includes:
• Consistent style across pages
• Text and graphics
• Method of user feedback
M2
Demonstrate proficient design skills.
The new multi-page website produced
is suitable for the target audience and
includes rich media. The website
produced is generally of a good
technical standard.
D2
Make appropriate use of
optimisation techniques and
site management tools. The
website produced is generally
of a high technical standard.

4.  The home page must be attractive and relevant as you don’t get a
second chance to make a first impression.
 The average user will take just six seconds to judge the overall quality of
a website so the design of your homepage will make or break your site.
Home Page
Know typical home page content
Be able to create home page
#homepage
#setup

8. Home Page
 A typical website homepage could
include the following features:
 Navigation
 Company Logo
 Key Details
 Latest News
 Relevant Images
 Appropriate Content
 Contact Details
 All of the information on your home page must be
relevant to the site and appropriate for the audience.
#homepage
#setup
Know typical home page content
Be able to create home page

9. Your Task
 Use your template to complete
your website home page.
 Use the editable regions on the
page to add relevant content:
 Text
 Images
 Rich Media
 Put some evidence of your home
page into the creation section of
your planning form and describe
what you’ve made.
#homepage
#setup
Know typical home page content
Be able to create home page