Most web applications don't have a dashboard page, but those that do typically provide a summary of things the user has, the last time they had logged in, and any notifications that the company would like to bring to the user's attention. If you use online banking, chances are that your bank's online banking web application has a dashboard page—and it probably is a list of accounts (checking, savings, credit cards, car loans, and more), and the balances on those accounts that you have with them.

We're going to build an application that users will implement to create photo albums, and so our dashboard will contain the number of photos we have uploaded, the number of photo albums, the last time we logged in, and more: