Your web site's home page has to do a lot more work than most, but for maximum usability it should follow the same page structure rules as the rest of your web site.
Written by Philip Chalmers who is based in the Medway area of Kent, England, United Kingdom.
Persuade first-time visitors that your site is worth looking at.
Tell regular visitors what's new - if there's nothing new, they'll go elsewhere.
Provide a route to all the other pages in your site.
Sometimes the home page provides more than its fair share of links to other sites' pages.
So it often needs a more complex layout than the "inside" pages.
Look back at the list of major components of web pages. How many of these will also appear on "inside" pages?
Probably the great majority.
So there's the unifying factor - give the groups of elements which are common to all / most pages the same positions, colour schemes, etc.
