This time it comes to the old theme: the one hand, a site modern, simple and above all contribute clear, but the other must be placed directly on the homepage of the most diverse reasons, numerous content. Below I will give some options to save space, clear and understandable to transport relatively large content.
Klein is quite large
A similar approach is small elements on mouseover or click to zoom. This is especially useful when maps had to be placed on the home page at. A small card is placed on the website. On this small map you can see roughly where you are already befindet.So something is very popular especially in tourist areas. Finally, even the guests, tourist area do not know exactly know so where is the appropriate place. Once you move the mouse over the map, the map is enlarged and displayed on the content of the website. Now it is possible to show more details and Quick to attractions, live cams, etc. to offer.
Very nice which has the Tourism Organisation of Montenegro solved:
Montenegro: Geographical navigation
Slideshows and Teaser
Stuff or rotating Teaser images are used very often. Especially in online stores is one such type of product or campaign presentation particularly popular. Durchdas change the animated images may be utilized according to the area several times and transported more information. It should be noted, however, that other people are not exaggerating with the animation and the user is also an alternative way to directly call a teaser. Nothing is more annoying than if one wants to watch a teaser but must wait until five other "run by" are.
Example:
LA Daily News
Graphically you can not solve certain beautiful, but the way we function here is very clear.
LA Daily News Teaser
Random effect
Another possibility is always present at random one element from a pool of several. It Can be a product from an online shop, a part of the wellness area of a hotel or a simple banner ads. This possibility has the positive effect that the user has the feeling that something is happening on the site and thus a rather sparse data maintenance can hide something. However, it should be noted that one can be confusing because the user also. It can happen quite possible that a user discovered a great product from an online store and in the evening will examine the product of this with his family again and order. Only Dumb if this product was displayed at random and the user will no longer be available via the familiar position for him. So you can see on what I'm getting at ... if it is working with random representations should also provide a link or a list of all possible areas, so that the recovery is somewhat easier.
Show only content when needed
Often it is not at all necessary to display all the contents immediately. Using Javascript / Ajax, there are now many opportunities to have very good data to reload and display on demand. Even if it contradicts something already learned user behavior is a pretty elegant way to save space. However, inexperienced users are quite overwhelmed by such proprietary uses. It is therefore not necessarily set suitable for all audiences and must be correspondingly more effort into usability testing.
Sun benefits GMX example, those opportunities to even more content on the home page to accommodate. On the home is with tabbed boxes worked "on the offered tab icons can be quickly switched to the desired topic. In addition, in the box "In Focus" the news only when Mouse Over in a larger version displayed.
Save space in Gmx.de
Conclusion:
Overloaded sites are neither aesthetically nor can they be operated very well because users are often overwhelmed by the flood of information. However, if you have no other choice and put a lot of information in a small space it needs to make sense to help with any of the presented concepts.