Hub & spoke layout, live today — May 10, 2026
Hi everyone,
Quick note: the quarex.org homepage got a redesign today. Same content, completely different presentation.
The old homepage was a grid of nav buttons — twelve roughly equal-weight rectangles. It worked, but it didn't tell a story. A first-time visitor landed on a wall of choices with no hierarchy and no explanation of what Quarex actually is.
The new layout puts Library at the visual center as a circle, with eight spokes radiating outward to the major destinations: News, Blog, Tags, Radio, Index, Studies, Data, and Politicians. The Politicians node has its own two sub-spokes for the English and Spanish election sites (Elections and Elecciones).
Above the hub sits a second row: Principles · What is a Quarex? · Ethics. Those are the "meta" entry points — the things you read to understand what Quarex is and why it exists, rather than to search for content.
Two reasons.
First, the metaphor matches the product. Quarex is a library at its core, with everything else orbiting around it — news, radio, tags, election research, studies, all built on top of the same structured-knowledge spine. The visual hierarchy now reflects the product hierarchy.
Second, two destinations are picked out in gold — What is a Quarex? and Library — so a first-time visitor's eye lands exactly where it should: definition first, then entry point. Everything else is one click away but visually secondary.
Just one file changed (index.html), uploaded to GoDaddy. Take a look at quarex.org and let me know what you think — what works, what doesn't, what's confusing.
— Peter