Are they emphasized on your homepage or are they grouped together with other, less important tasks, on your homepage? The most popular and important functions of your website should be grouped together in a prominent location where they are not in competition with a lot of other elements on your homepage. In other words, don't try to make everything on your homepage important because nothing will get the user's attention. Just take a look at any financial information website and you'll see that functions such as stock quotes, as well as the movements of the major stock indexes, are emphasized heavily.