Jason, from the Clemson Asian Student Association, is the webmaster of http://www.clemsonasa.com.  Let’s get right into it.

Presentation

I like your Wordpress theme.  When I first entered your site, I pretty much knew what the site was about - that is a good thing, of course.  One bit I did notice, which is bothering me, is that it says “Have a safe and happy holidays” with a gingerbread man.  I’m not sure if you are just getting ahead or didn’t take it down from last year?  Maybe you should put Clemson Asian Student Association there instead.   Just some food for thought.

As I sit here staring at your page, I notice there is a lot of wasted space.  I love the layout and I understand why you made your design decisions, but begin to think about your purpose.   What does your audience want to see first?  A schedule of events?  A welcome message?  Consider putting a very small welcome message below the navigation with a link to a longer welcome message/mission statement.  Another idea would be to put a group picture with this message to show that you have a community.

For example:

This was a bit quick and dirty, but you get the point.

With the welcome message out of your main content area, you can then focus on making the important content stand out.

Get rid of your News page since it is inaccurate/out of date.  If you want to keep it, move the archives listing to the sidebar… or don’t even include it since there are only two items.  Since meetings are incredibly important, also think about making it another sidebar item.  Put something like (specifics are just for the sake of example):
Next Meeting: 10/17/07 
Location: Kinard 101
Time: 7:00PM

Your most important news should be visible without your audience having to scroll/search for it.  Trying to do this without messing up your design is a challenge, but totally possible.  Make a hierarchy of information items you want to get across to your audience.  Make sure the top few are visible when they reach the front page.  If you have the meetings listed on the sidebar, your main content area can be used for meeting notes or event announcements.  Not to necessarily go sidebar-crazy, but you could also list the events on a sidebar panel, as well.

What is the point of the Articles link?

Technical

You don’t have any meta tags.
Your page titles are not descriptive.

Email me if you have problems setting those up.

Your copyright is out of date.

Make sure there aren’t any major issues with your website by going over some of the validation suggestions.  Basically, the only significant change you need to make from that list is just “alt” properties on your “img” tags.  That can really help your site’s SEO and is just helpful overall (if the picture cannot load, it will replace it with your alt tag).

Outside of that, your load times are good, your links work, and your CSS is clean.

The Lo-Down

-Use more sidebars to reduce wasted space!
-What navigation links are necessary?
-Create hierarchy of needs for your site
-Use meta tags!
-Update copyright
-Update page titles

Conclusion

Your site is just out of date.  It looks very sleek, but many of the links aren’t updated.  I think the main problem is that you tried to be too organized with your links.  A few of those navigation links could have been compressed, and you aren’t really sitting down and thinking what do people want to know? That’s what’s important!  When you are making some changes to your site (which I hope you use some of my suggestions!), put yourself in the shoes of someone who has mild interest in the ASA.  You want to answer who/what/where/when/why/how in the most efficient way possible.
Who are you?  What is this?  Where can I meet you? When do you meet? Why should I join? How do I join?
Who runs it? What can I do to help? Where are the events listed?

There are so many combinations you can use, and that is why you need to decide what is the most important and what is the least important.

Overall Rating
6/10
Main factor: Organization