Overall I like it, but it could really do with a max-width set for the content. I use my browser full screen on a 24" monitor and some of the line lengths are far in excess of readable.
The max-width has been deployed, thanks for the feedback.
A redesign of the Django websites
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Re: A redesign of the Django websites
#52My take aways: too much white space, the highlight colour when you select text within code wells is really hard to distinguish & as others have mentioned black on white is hard on the eyes.
Re: A redesign of the Django websites
#53Overall I like it, but it could really do with a max-width set for the content. I use my browser full screen on a 24" monitor and some of the line lengths are far in excess of readable.
The max-width has been deployed, thanks for the feedback.
Ahhh that's much better. Amazing responsiveness!
Re: A redesign of the Django websites
#54It must just be me, but it feels that the site is optimized for mobile browsing. There is very little content and my eyes have to move massively just to read the page. I actually prefer the old layout. :/
Documentation websites actually have some pretty good use-cases to being scalable to mobile, either because people will view documentation on a tablet or phone while developing, or due to people using smaller browser widths when developing to be able to display their IDE or terminal windows next to the documentation windows.
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#55The old design was/is awesome, I'll miss it. I didn't fell comfortable with the new one, looks too bright to my eyes.
I totally agree.
Re: A redesign of the Django websites
#56The docs have been made a bit denser, thanks for the feedback guys!
Re: A redesign of the Django websites
#57For comparison: http://i.imgur.com/U2p3BEU.png It's always difficult and probably unfair to express an opinion right after having seen the redesign. As with any complete overhaul that keeps close to nothing from the previous version, it's very hard to improve the experience without losing any sense of identity. In this case, the Bootstrap vibe is quite prominent. It does makes sense for the documentation, but the mai…
They're not using Bootstrap.
Re: A redesign of the Django websites
#58I really, overall, love the redesign. It's much cleaner, better organized and it's awesome to have better support for width based scaling. As someone who uses the Django documentation very often, I'm happy to see this redesign.
I must plea, though, that if anyone responsible is reading, it would be extraordinarily helpful if the green highlight color is set back to the system default, or at least a darker color. I have quite a bit of trouble following through blocks of text on a screen or reading black-ish colors on bright white backgrounds, and often use my highlighting tool to help me keep track of location and to distinguish the text from the background. The almost invisible green makes that very difficult for me.
Re: A redesign of the Django websites
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thanks for the reply. Are there any guidelines or "best practices" for writing code for both 2.7 and 3.4?
http://python-future.org/compatible_idioms.html
This is a pretty comprehensive guide. It does rely on the future lib, which is a wrapper around six and a few others to make it easier, but you can also just write your own minimal lib for things that need to have:
if py2:
pass # Py2 specific line here
else:
pass # Py3 stuff here
Re: A redesign of the Django websites
#60I really, overall, love the redesign. It's much cleaner, better organized and it's awesome to have better support for width based scaling. As someone who uses the Django documentation very often, I'm happy to see this redesign. I must plea, though, that if anyone responsible is reading, it would be extraordinarily helpful if the green highlight color is set back to the system default, or at least a darker color. I ha…
Done! https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/192
Will be deployed soon :)