Great post by Paul Boag over at BoagWorld.com entitled 10 things a web designer would never tell you

#7 is my favorite:

Fit as much on the homepage as possible

Without a doubt the homepage is by far the most important page on your site. If I look at my own website statistics the majority of people who come to my site never get further than the homepage (I have no idea why this is the case!) This is a problem. – Paul Boag from 10 things a web designer would never tell you

Whenever I come across a site that adheres to this “rule”, I’m halted, my sub-conscience broken, and I begin to explore all that the site has to offer.

Ha! Funny stuff…

From a usability standpoint, well any standpoint for that matter, treating links as if they were footnotes makes absolutely no sense. It defeats the whole point.

The website for the Chicago Recycling Coalition uses this approach in full force:

Dates and locations for collections in the Chicago area can be found on the IEPA website link, under “web resources,” below. – ChicagoRecycling.org

It was hard enough finding that tiny bit of info on their website, let alone then having to sort through a list of links at the bottom of the page to find the collection dates. What could reasoning for not placing the link right there baffles me.

Making your website visitors work harder than they have to is moronic.

We track our money, our workout habits, so why not our social interactions?

TweetStats is a statistic utility that breaks down your Twitter usage by month, aggregate hourly tweets and which interface you use most.

Here are my stats: http://tweetstats.com/graphs/rjb

As you can see, the trend moves downward for me.

via Fred Wilson’s post Twitter Stats