I checked the great manual "113 Design Guidelines for Homepage Usability"
from Jakob Nielsen and here are my thoughts about the main page (clojure.org
):
1) It's misleading that some links in the left pane are underlined ("API",
"Recent changes", "Libraries", "Community") while others are not.
2) It's better to have dates for the news. May be in small font no avoid
clutter. It is not obvious that "ClojureScript" happened recently. (Spelling
out the month, or using month abbreviations, not numbers.)
3) The most voted Clojure question on stackoverflow is
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1314732/scala-vs-groovy-vs-clojure, so it
would be good to have short comparison(s) at least with Scala, preferably in
the form of the bulleted list. May be inline or on a separate page.
4) Other highly voted Clojure questions are related to "tutorials, books",
"advantages of Lisp", "web programming" and "real world usage" so it would
be good to have these topics linked from the main pane.
5) The main pane of the main page is good and a quite concise introductional
text but it lacks scannabillity. It would be good to rewrite it to use more
bulleted lists.
6) There should be mentioning that Clojure has commercial support
7) It's not obvious that "Rationale" and "On State and Identity" is
clickable because they look like unclickable category headers without items.
What can be done? May be make the left pane links blue? Or at least put the
most important links in the separate category?
8) It's quite bad that visited links have the same color as unvisited.
9) "Contrib Libraries" link is not clear. It's better to be renamed. I have
just realized that it comes from the word "contribute" . That is after 1.5
years of Clojure experience. ( :) don't call me stupid, it's usability)
10) "Dev" link is not clear. When should I use it? What is good for?
11) After 1.5 years of using clojure.org I have just realized there is a
search bar in the right upper corner. Probably it would be better to make it
stand out of the navigation - the closest link pane. Also it's better to
make it wider.
12) It's quite bad that the right upper link pane looks like a banner. What
about making it as a horizontal menu and visually distinct the search
leaving it in the right upper area?
"Group items in the navigation area so that similar items are next to each
> other."
>
13) "Google Group", "IRC", "Wiki" are better to be adjacent because they are
about "Community".
Just quoting http://www.useit.com/homepageusability/guidelines.html :
14) "Include a tag line that explicitly summarizes what the site or company
does."
15) "Don't include "homepage" in the title. This adds verbiage without
value."
16) "Communicating Information About Your Company" - there should be at
least the link to clojure.com, may be named "Who We Are/ Commercial Support"
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