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Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

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Post by Stratoscope »

bobx11 wrote: post #88
Stratoscope wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

@jacobian - hope you see this - it appears that you were hellbanned 41 minutes ago. I have no idea why - don't shoot the messenger!

I loaded the page in other browsers and saw my comment, but now there are like 20 others saying the same thing but my comment id is the predecessor to the one that's at the top (so i was first ;] ). what symptom tells you I was hellbanned?

@bobx11 - you weren't hellbanned, @jacobian was. But no one can reply to a comment from a hellbanned user, so the custom is to reply to a parent comment in the hope that the hellbanned user may see it.

If you had been hellbanned yourself, then you would see your own comments, but other users wouldn't see them unless they enabled "showdead" in their HN settings. And non-logged-in visitors would never see them. So viewing an HN page you've commented on from an incognito window is a good way to check that.

Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

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Post by PommeDeTerre »

benhoyt wrote: post #115
walkon wrote: post #107

Has some nice aspects, but that secondary nav is horrible in almost every way.

I'm not in any way related to this effort, but if you're going to give criticism, please at least make it constructive or give examples of what you mean. I certainly didn't find it horrible "in almost every way".

I think that was an example of very concise and constructive criticism.

Sometimes just about everything is wrong with a given design, and saying so is the best way to express this.

In this case, it's pretty obvious that the nav buttons are uselessly large, the empty padding on either end is wasteful and annoying, the location mid-way down the page isn't practical, the color makes it blend in with the page's background, the drop down submenus make it awkward to find and get to the information being sought, the submenus are cluttered, and so forth.

The location is poor. The appearance is poor. The usability is poor. Using "horrible in almost every way" to describe it is very accurate and precise. It's just not the kind of thing that works after some minor tweaks; it all needs to be thrown away and redone using a different approach.

Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

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Post by webology »

random42 wrote: post #93
jacobian wrote: post #85

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The code's not open source yet, but it will be. The idea is we'll deliver what we've promised to the PSF, then launch the site for real (i.e. replace python.org) and open source the code at the same time. We want to make this into a community-maintained thing, but first we got some real work to do :)

Is it implemented in Django?

Yes the website is running Django 1.5 on Python 3.3 :)

Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

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Post by nonamegiven »

andyroid wrote: post #55
nonamegiven wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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…

If you're using lynx for browsing, you already know what Python is.

As I said, it gives you an idea of what an impaired user might see.

Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

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Post by ubercore »

vasco wrote: post #126

In the downloads tab "Download for Mac OSX" is the worse choice for a default. Either choose the one with the most users (Windows) or the open one (Linux)...

These will by dynamic, as with most download links out there. OS X is just shown because that's what we've been developing with, mostly.
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