What to write on your home page to introduce the website?

Answer 1

Exactly that, to introduce it!

You know, there are so many ways you could go about this, but it really comes down to what function you want the introduction to serve for your (and your users) needs.

For a personal website or blog, perhaps you could introduce yourself and also provide a quick intro about what your website it all about and what the goal is of this website. Specific to a blog, you would want your most recent update to be available here in some form.

For a business website, you would introduce the business, what kind of business it is, and what users might find inside. You can also use this space to advertise current deals that you have and provide easy access to those things.

For an organization or charity, you could use this space for a mission statement and also the goals of your organization and the goals of the website.

For a professional website (like an online portfolio) you could use a resume about yourself and describe exactly what it is you are advertising about yourself.

For a news website, you would use this space to introduce the top news stories.

Despite these thoughts, one thing that works across all of these is adding space to show "what's new" for your website/company/personal stuff.

Whatever you choose to do with it, you will want your homepage to be rather streamlined in comparison to the pages deeper within the site. This is because the homepage is generally the first page users will see when going to it (unless it was found by a search like Google and the link takes them to a subpage). The homepage is the first impression that you give to your readers. If your homepage is messy, unorganized, and difficult to read or navigate, your users are going to assume that it will be too time-consuming or frustrating to try to investigate further into your website. On the other hand, if it's very neat, organized, to the point, it will make them want to take a chance to look around further.

You can use links to provide more detail should the user want to see more detail.

On the other hand, if it is a personal website, like say for your extended family to view, you will want to put on here things that are relevant to your family news and about your family. Your family will take a look through your site despite how out-of-ordinary it is. Same is true if it is an interest only intended for a certain group of friends of yours and etc.