the.com/home page
The front door of a website that everyone redesigns and no one agrees on.
means The main introductory page of a website, typically the one that loads first and links out to everything else.
from A compound of 'home' (base, dwelling place) and 'page' (a side or sheet, borrowed from manuscript and print pages). The phrase arrived with the web itself in the early 1990s — 'home' because it was the page a browser opened to by default, your anchor point before you wandered off into hyperlinks, just as you leave an actual home and return to it.
- original sin
- Yahoo made it a directory, not a doorway
- traffic reality
- most visitors skip it via search or links
- corporate battlefield
- every department wants its banner on it
- default meaning
- browser term before it meant website at all