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For example, this is a fly-out on the main page: http://cl.ly/image/0w2t0N0S3714
And this one is one the docs sub-site: http://cl.ly/image/1Z2S0p3O1e15
The problem with python's website was never that it wasnt "Sexy" enough to attract newcomers. Its that the documentation was never as well written or well organized as other languages/libraries like ruby and jQuery.
Looks nice, but my first thought when I looked at the code example: 1 >>> l = ['spam', 'ham', 314, 23] was "wait, how are they assigning a list to the number 1? How is that possible? Oh... that's an l". (Not a fan of that. I'm half blind (figuratively) so these things confuse me.)
Great work! Some thoughts from a purely personal perspective, take them as you will: - I often refer non-programmers to python.org when they ask what that "Python" thing I do all day is. If this is a significant portion of your traffic, I might move the "Python is a programming language..." bit higher up the page. - "Integrate systems more effectively" doesn't mean much to me, but if the landing page is a tool for de…
"I might move the "Python is a programming language..." bit higher up the page." If you look at the site with a text browser like lynx then this is even more important. Lots of menus and other things that assume you know what's going on, then finally on the next page break or two an explanation. Make that all but topmost. (And y'all ought to view your sites with a text browser once in awhile, it will give you a rough…
EDIT: Made a screenshot to illustrate the problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/orzn4f2utoxh4st/Screen-Shot-2013-0...
I really hate saying this because I know it must have taken a lot of work to get to this stage... but it looks very 2005. Fewer gradients and shadows and try to slim down the menus and columns. I know the current site isn't exactly a beauty, but I liked how it had a Wikipedia-like gravitas. This design looks too young for the audience.
I like everything except for the search bar: The search icon is off, and the button is too high. Also the «socialize» dropdown on that bar doesn't look that good.
At that point I need to move my cursor back to "About", drag down, and then right.
Putting a time delay on there, or that Javascript that Amazon uses for theirs that detects mouse movement would be fantastic.
