Limulus.net is now going through another redesign. The biggest change in the functionality of the site is the removal of the menu on the left side. The idea behind the navigation menu was so that you can go from one area of the site to any other with just one click. That sounds like a great idea, but the problem with a personal website like mine, where the separate areas have very little in common, is that it presents new visitors with a bunch of links without any context. When a user sees a list of links, with titles like schrodinger’s wife and the clams, they have no idea what they are, so why should they click on them? A homepage can do a much better job explaining the links, so that a user as a much better idea of what they are clicking on.
So the navigation menu was pretty much a waste of space. Redundant on the homepage, useless on all the other pages of the site. In its place, are three links in the site banner. A link to the homepage, this blog, and my contact page. It’s obvious what these links go to and they make use of space that was previously being lost.