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Is your website's homepage boring?

According to pod-caster, web designer and accessibility guru, Paul Boag, one of the worst ways to kick off a homepage is stick in a long spiel about how great and wonderful you are. That makes for a boring first impression, indeed!

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We went a few stages deeper into the world of boring or defective homepages.

List what you do, but in a way that no casual visitor is ever likely to understand.
Deep Chip makes any non-geek feel like they are in Deep Shit.

Make your homepage into a
thousand word list that is perfectly clear but of no interest to anyone whatsoever.

Take the piss and illustrate clearly what you can't do particularly well, as in
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Leave a
blank on the homepage intentionally, or make visitors think your page is blank, by labelling it "under construction" but blow them away with more content than 90% of the 55 million blogs out there.

The best advice is probably to err on the side of humility. Say who you are and state your business in one gob-smacking line, before getting down to it.

So, we are The Pisstaker, who
mock web, tech & world news on a daily basis, signing out.

Got any more examples of homepages that suck el grande?




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