New NLM Website

If you're a frequent (or even not-so-frequent) visitor to the National Library of Medicine, then you may have noticed that they unveiled a new website today!  Apparently, the NLM used website usage statistics to determine users' top tasks, and placed those most prominently on the page.  A recent new item in the NLM Technical Bulletin describes other major goals of the site redesign to improve usability:

Image from NLM Technical Bulletin

• placed more top task links right on the homepage, and also throughout the site by adding site-wide navigation in the header;
• added a "Share" feature so users can send content to friends, colleagues, or themselves via social bookmarking and networking;
• added links to interact with various NLM social media channels; and
• updated headers and top navigation throughout (see Figure 2).

The Technical Bulletin news item also included an interesting history of the NLM website:  

NLM published its first Web site in October of 1993. It was one of the first U.S. federal Web sites. We released new looks for the site in 1996, 1999, and 2004.