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by cgag 4682 days ago
I really love the dinosaur, and the animations are cool.

I'm not a designer in any way, so don't take my opinions very seriously, but here are my thoughts:

I found it non-obvious that the homepage wasn't all there is. Maybe the link text for "adventure" should be something different.

FORUMS looks like a header to me, with the posts underneath it. I see now that it takes you to the full forum, but I'm not sure what's going on with the dyslexia stuff beneath it.

The word 'back' on the navigation on the right could maybe be more descriptive depending on what page you're on.

As for Clojure, if you have any more specific questions, stop by #clojure on freenode on irc, everyone's super helpful. I'd be glad to help with anything more specific as well. I don't know how much you know, but compojure and ring are the goto tools to get started with web dev in clojure.

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Thanks for taking the time cgag :) The 'non-obvious' aspects was exactly what I'm trying to weed out going forward.

I've built some demos before- enough to appreaciate 'The Clojure Way' of doing things over my experiences with other tools... but what I've really been struggling with was the methodology of development- how do I start a project, how much documentation is appropriate, keeping a tidy source tree, refactoring etc...

I started using IRC just on your reccomendation and, it's one of my favourite things on the internet now :) I'm not sure why I didn't start using it eariler :D