This series describes some of the design and strategy decisions that one faces when developing a website, especially one with a social networking component or a community focus. The first part in this series takes a look at the home page. What types of home page designs work and why?

Why is the home page important?

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Recently a client wanted to serve local language content to visitors from different countries. This practice is also known as Geotargeting, and much has been written about its potential to help a company expand to new markets or better target existing ones.

Geotargeting is, however, a tricky proposition for visitors and search engine spiders and so [...]