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A redesign of the Django websites

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Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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Post by quaunaut »

nightmiles wrote: post #37

This is a very interesting redesign, and it shocks me that they chose to do it. On the one hand, this update is beautiful with a tasteful front page and familiar-yet-fresh documentation pages. On the other hand, the old design was also fantastic. Despite kicking around for just under 10 years, the old Django look never felt old, ugly, or clunky. It had a clean, thoughtful layout with good color contrast and an unmist…

I'd personally disagree, if only because the actual text space columns were so thin that it made everything I was reading feel very, very busy. It took me weeks to get comfortable regularly going to their documentation instead of looking at SE, even though their documentation was very, very good.

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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Post by olasitarska »

biscotti wrote: post #52

My 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.

The highlight color has been fixed and will be deployed soon. Thanks for feedback!

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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Post by olasitarska »

amarsahinovic wrote: post #50

You should really fix the selection color. I usually select text while reading it, and I can barely see the selection here. Otherwise, good job!

This has been fixed by andrevvm and will be deployed soon: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/pull/192. Thanks for feedback!

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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Post by TylerE »

Igglyboo wrote: post #48
roebk wrote: post #40

I love the new design, it encompasses many modern design patterns, it's clean, flat and all the elements have room to breath. My biggest issue with the redesign it that I and many others have huge difficultly reading black text on a white background. If anyone would like to find out more about visual stress then this link provides a quick, easy to digest overview http://www.crossboweducation.com/articles/visual-stres…

I've never heard of this actually, I would have thought black on white was the best way to read text. What would be a better choice? Would black on off-white be better?

Honestly on a backlutz screen, grey on navy is hard to beat. There's a reason all of those 80s mainframe apps looked like that. They did studies.

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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Post by olasitarska »

joseakle wrote: post #33

I'm colorblind and some links on the documentation https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ don't look different enough from normal text. Mostly I'm having a hard time identifying links that aren't underlined.

Thanks for the feedback, this is invaluable! We would love to hear more from you on our issue tracker: https://github.com/django/djangoproject.com/issues

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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Post by joshuacc »

Igglyboo wrote: post #48
roebk wrote: post #40

I love the new design, it encompasses many modern design patterns, it's clean, flat and all the elements have room to breath. My biggest issue with the redesign it that I and many others have huge difficultly reading black text on a white background. If anyone would like to find out more about visual stress then this link provides a quick, easy to digest overview http://www.crossboweducation.com/articles/visual-stres…

I've never heard of this actually, I would have thought black on white was the best way to read text. What would be a better choice? Would black on off-white be better?

While most printed materials are "black" on "white," when the range is compared to a light-emitting screen that's more like "dark gray" on "light gray." Looking at something with too much contrast for a long time can cause eyestrain.

Re: A redesign of the Django websites

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Post by lgp171188 »

glofish wrote: post #7
sailfast wrote: 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 ...

Yes, even I thought the same. I hate that the home page has a lot of content that I have to scroll down to view (at 1440x900 resolution).

http://ibin.co/1kret3oW7caZ illustrates whitespace wastage in the blog

Edit: Added an illustration

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