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Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

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Post by neutronicus »

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #50
gdg92989 wrote: post #47

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.

I really liked Python's documentation. I read the tutorial and it got me up and running really quickly, and whenever I had a problem or needed details of the arguments it was an invaluable reference. Clearly, not everyone thought so. What did you not like about the docs?

It's nice to learn from, but if you already know what you're doing and you just forgot the arguments to that one god damn method, it's pretty irritating to actually find the arguments to that one god damn method.

Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

#102

Post by gtaylor »

A few misc. observations:

* Too much of this page is spent on navigation and link lists. It's the landing page, but we don't need to link to every single sub-section of the site.

* I don't think having a whole sub-menu on the bottom of the page with various download architectures is a good idea. A single "Downloads" link would be much better, breaking out by distro on the downloads page.

* Ditto for a lot of the other stuff in the bottom menus. I understand we're trying to make things discoverable, but feel that you went too far in the other direction (information overload).

* The mobile style is pretty disappointing. There is a ton of wasted vertical space, and the vast majority of my scrolling is spent getting through all of the various menu levels. This could be trimmed down a ton, there's just too much. Strip out all of the ancillary links, stick to the core content, and make it easy to digest.

I make these comments because I genuinely care. I want to see the new python.org blow our socks off.

Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

#103

Post by spicavigo »

You are killing it. Python.org should be really dry. The language is too juicy. I really love the way it looks right now. Moreover, whoever designed the new one, did a half-hearted job. It looks obnoxious. May be there is a design which looks better, but this definitely is not it. It looks like some corporate-y site, and worse, a really bad corporate.

Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

#104

Post by asawilliams »

too much variation in style between sections. Some areas are very flat and 'Metro-ish' and then you have heavy gradients, extreme rounded corners. It just doesn't feel consistent. Looks like multiple designers were working on this and no one was talking to one another.

Re: Python.org Redesign Preview

#109

Post by Mahn »

jacobian wrote: post #30
msluyter wrote: post #22

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.)

Yeah, that example is a placeholder; we plan on replacing it with something awesome. Thanks!

Ah, that explains it, I was about to post "wow, this code snippet does a pretty poor job at convincing me to learn Python" :-)
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