There is no right or wrong way to organise a website, and the different styles of home pages shown here demonstrate that the first face your site shows the world is really a matter of taste.

The digital student newspaper of St Flannan's in Ennis, Fuinneamh 2000, introduces itself quite explosively: the image you can see on the left is the school crest, shattered into many pieces. The crest constantly reconstitutes itself and shatters again in different ways.

Even when you click on the crest to enter the newspaper proper, much of the screen is taken up with a madly spinning series of choices, all in that Celtic script, offering you links to particular subject areas; luckily, if your hand-eye co-ordination isn't quite of Playstation calibre, the left side of the screen also offers a nice, neat, stationary version of the same links. Not as fun, but pretty handy.

Links down the side of the screen has become something approaching a universal language in web design. The home page of the Information Age Times from Ennis Community College offers them, plus a multilingual welcome banner, and also jumps straight in with an editorial.

Flux On-Line, from Rice College, combines the approaches: a very fancy shimmering graphic is surrounded by all the links you could want. In fact, anywhere you go on the Rice site, you're surrounded with links, which is very user-friendly; but perhaps slightly limiting for the design, because all the articles and features are squeezed into a narrow column.

The conservative, all-American home page of Eagle Rock High School comes from one of hundreds of student-run school web pages in the US. Apart from its very simple, restrained design, it also includes a nice feature: the school's name and address very clearly.

Remember, people from all over the Internet might arrive at your school's website through the most tenuous link or search, and they'll be pleased to know, straightaway, where in the world you are.