Posted by Andy Dingley on 09/04/06 09:31

jambiani wrote:

> I have a homepage www.zanzibar-guesthouse.dk i would like to write some
> words so seach engines can find the page, but i would like my homepage
> to be without words?

Ignoring search engines for the moment and just thinking of human
users, why should "your homepage be without words"?

The homepage is crucial, in many ways the most important page on the
site. So why not place words on it? If you're taking an _aesthetic_
view of things and saying that the first page should just be one
beautiful image, then that's a good approach _for_print_media_. On the
web though it's called a "splash page" and it's generally agreed now
that although they used to be popular, they're not a good usability
feature. If you really want to have one, call it "splash.htm" and
handle it accordingly. The homepage that is what people bookmark and
what the web robots find should be content-rich, not just pretty.

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