What are website home page requirements?

[Susan F]

I am launching a website shortly and want to make sure I have included everything on the mock up design. I have my header, logo, business name. Then a bar with contact, about us, meet us, and suggestion buttons next. Then my business product with descriptions and a link to a separate page for each individual product. What am i missing?

[bo75007]

hmm sounds ok but I'd add a sitemap for the purposes of SEO.

[The answer king]

sounds fine.
Thanks

[Bag]

Well it would be easier to work out from a screen shot (even if just a paint mockup), hopefully this will help out a bit anyway tho, basically just a quick checklist of things that you may want to consider adding to the design, admittedly some may be irrelevant depending on what kind of site it is your making.

Ensure header/logo links to your products home page,
Consider the addition of a search bar,
Bread Crumb navigation is always useful to ensure no one gets lost,
Site Maps can be useful in some circumstances,
A legal page is often useful too, for privacy policy's and all that
Depending on the site some social media sharing tools may be of use (posting to facebook/buzz/twitter etc)
Ensure all text is readable / good contrast and that layout will fit on lower resolution monitors (fluid or fixed)
Clear navigation that remains in place across the entire site (consistency)

Hope that helps