Here are some personal home pages you can check out as examples:
         Note:  not all of these may work, these have been collected over a period of time.

People in Triumph of the Nerds:  Bill Gates. Robert X. Cringley. Steve Wozniak.
                      H. Edward RobertsDaniel Bricklin.  I can't find one for Steve Jobs.

         Students in Sociology of Cyberspace last year.
 Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice Deptartment Faculty.

  Academics often use WEB pages to make their professional writings available, e.g.,  Paul Krugman.  Stephen Wolfram.  Domingo Cavallo.  Ben Goertzel   Dean Keith Simonton.  Noam Chomsky.  Marshall McLuhan.  (of course, he is dead, but the site is maintained by his estate).  A memorial WEB site is a way of keeping a person alive in cyberspace, e.g., my brother Penn Goertzel.

You can use a home page to post information about a hobby or interest that you have, e.g.,  B. J. Swartz's Camden Page and William Hoffman's Art Gallery.   If it is a purely personal site it will probably be of interest only to family and friends.  A more general site has a potential of reaching more people.  However,you cannot assume that simply opening a Home Page means you will get a lot of visitors.  If your goal is marketing, choose key words carefully and put them on top.  List your site with Search Engines (there is a link on their home pages for this).  Try to get links from other sites. Read Net Presence: If No One Sees a Web Site, Is It Really There?