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A redesign of the Django websites

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Re: A redesign of the Django websites

#21

OT: I know that Django 1.6+ can be used with Python 3.4 but is Django 1.7.1 written in Python 2.7 or 3.4?

Both.

It is possible, and not too difficult in fact, to write a single codebase that runs under both Python 2 and Python 3. Which is what Django has done. The same code runs the same under 2.7 or 3.3 or 3.4.

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

#24

I liked, have only two criticisms: Content seems sparse, maybe due to line-height and/or font-size. I also get a "too much green" feeling in my eyes. The overall change was positive, imo.

I zoom the page down to 75% to browse the docs, it gives the same spacing as the old layout.

Good! This gives a much more comfortable visualization.

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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post #12

Is there a word for muscle memory but for your eyes? After so many years it's going to take a while to get used to but first impression is that it looks nice and readable. Code snippets look much better.

Visual memory, I guess. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_memory

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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No matter what web stack I end up using down the road, I will always have a special place in my heart for Django. It taught me the fundamentals of MVC in web app context, and in some ways got me a job that led to many good things in my life.

Redesign looks nice, the old site was beginning to look dated.

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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post #7
post #3

This is a lot more readable and approachable - nice work! Cool to see that the designers managed to stick to the green template while making it work for a bunch of different content types. Thanks for the update!

I think it has too much empty space ...

Yeah, there's a lot of whitespace - I'm not the biggest fan of all that padding on the blog / archive dates template, or the L-R padding on the home page, but I hear "more space" is all the rage :)

Mostly I noticed the difference in the Docs. The elements are called out more explicitly and it's easier to find things on the docs, which have considerably less whitespace: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial01/

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