Site Design

Site design should be simple, with few distractions, clear information architecture, and matching navigation tools.
No Home button on home page.
The home page should answer the question:
- Where am I?
- What does this site do?
Home page could have news and special promotions.
Home page should have a search engine.
Do not design for any standard width, rather design so that your home page will work across a range of window sizes.
Do not have a splash screen with an Enter button.

Prominent design element the name of the site or the logo.
Logo maybe repeated on all interior pages.
Link to home page from all interior pages.
Do not force the user to enter only through the home page.
Use the meta tag on all interior pages so that search engines will be able to find them.

Use metaphors in your design with caution.
Use only well known and accepted metaphors if you need to. The shopping cart is an example of a well known metaphor. Use the metaphor in its accepted way.
Do not use new metaphors in your design! There is a design principle that states - Do not make me think.

You need to answer the following questions:

Have a search engine on the home page as well as on other pages.
Add meta tags to each of your pages so that they can be picked up by search engines.