Re: new site pushed

On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:56:08 -0400
will kahn-greene <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm also not sure that the "readable without scrolling" rule is
> compelling.  What's the motivation for that rule?

my reasoning was: if you add links to that information in the menu, you should remove it from the home page, otherwise there would be some redundancy - which in my case always causes confusion, which is a bad thing.  Example: when the frontpage has a section "IRC" but the menu also has a link "irc" I will wonder if they point to different information, and if so, which one is the most useful/up-to-date; i will have a click glance at the irc info, then click the link and see what happens.
all this mental overhead can be avoided by removing all redundancy. (and it makes the page a tiny bit simpler as well)

However, I think your goal of having all critical on the homepage is nice too. so just ignore me, first of all, I don't know what I'm talking about, and even if i was this can debated endlessly with very little possible benefit, your way is fine.

> I would definitely be interested in project pages you find compelling as
> well as what requirements you (or anyone else reading this email) think
> a project front page should have.

I like http://uzbl.org/ , nearly all the content there is generated from the documentation within the project, and I find it easy to navigate.
but that doesn't mean you should do it like that. I don't know much about UX.

Dieter

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