Python.org Redesign Preview (preview.python.org)

Looks great! Go for it. Then go talk to the PHP.net team about their disastrously ugly site, too.

Huge improvement, that really looks great. One cool feature you could look into is an interactive terminal like http://www.codecademy.com/ has on their homepage.

Check here for an overview of the site redesign by the person who made it happen: http://jessenoller.com/blog/2012/11/28/the-great-python-org-...

Great stuff.

Great work! Some thoughts from a purely personal perspective, take them as you will:

- I often refer non-programmers to python.org when they ask what that "Python" thing I do all day is. If this is a significant portion of your traffic, I might move the "Python is a programming language..." bit higher up the page.

- "Integrate systems more effectively" doesn't mean much to me, but if the landing page is a tool for devs to convince their managers to let them use the language, could make sense.

- I don't love calling the list 'l' given that many beginners wind up here. It can look like a "1" to those not used to monospace, and is confusing. Come to think of it, the whole beginning example would be very obtuse to anyone not familiar with programming at all: one of the things I love about Python is that it's easy to introduce to a total beginner, with something like "it's like learning French or Italian, not a bunch of random symbols".

- I personally love the way you do the main dropdowns.

- The topbar is nice too, but a bit less noticeable to me than maybe it should be. I think some tooltip-provided explanation (or similar) of PyPi, saying "Package Index", might help those new to Python but aware of what a package index is. This might be unnecessary though.

- The location (and naming) of the "Socialize" link doesn't make much sense to me. What does it have to do with Search? Also unsure why there's the font +/- link there; do you often hear that browser settings are insufficient?

I'm exited to see what I think is a terrific update to the beloved Python homepage. Best of luck!

I certainly like the frontpage look, a lot more up to date than the current site. I tend to prefer less weight in the header on inner pages. While it is nice and prominent, it does push the stuff that returning users will be interested in further down the page. I really liked the popups on the main nav.

Looks great. That example on the front page might want to pick a different variable name, though. It sort of looks like you're using the number 1 as the variable.

Looks awesome! A much needed revamp at last!

From now on, the snake will be able to compete head to head with a certain pink rock (in terms of attractive homepages) :)

The style reminds me of the jQuery site redesign, but python.org looks better.

Fucking sexy, only immediate criticism is the PSF link looks disabled because it's the only unsaturated label color. It feels very "coming-soon" and not very "click on me!"

Awesome. How about having a different landing page for non-devs and devs like drupal.com vs drupal.org?

Serif font makes the l look like a 1 in the code.

Looks great, now make the Python example actually interactive using a Javascript backend.

using 'l' as a variable name seems like bad practice… it looks like a 1!

One of my biggest bugbears of learning from the official docs was trudging through python.org. Hopefully this addresses that.

Loving the redesign - clean, functional and pretty as well.

I like what i see ! Looks a tad bit inspired from earlier version of tryruby.org, i hope they add the functionality .

I like everything except for the search bar: The search icon is off, and the button is too high.

Also the «socialize» dropdown on that bar doesn't look that good.

It looks OK but if one is going to hire top notch agencies and spend a decent bit of money, I don't see why the design should look this dated and cluttered. Too many navbars and buttons everywhere and tons of gradients and rounded corners are emphasizing almost everything on the page. Isn't this kind of gradient-heavy stuff dated to 5-10 years ago?

I suggest to add a slice example in the first page since it quickly makes obvious how Python can help you in writing less code.

It would be interesting to do A/B testing with different code snippets.

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.)

  import os
  for filename in os.walk('/'):
    print(filename)

Love the design and architecture, and really love the success stories. I remember struggling to sell a dated financial enterprise company on the benefits of Python, and those case studies would have really helped.

It looks a lot better than the current site! A few criticisms:

1) The line numbers and spacings on the list example are confusing: The examples come from an interactive session, but the presence of line numbers suggest that it's a script. Also the spacing is inconsistent with what you'd get if you typed that into the standard python shell.

2) I think the drop down menus from the top of the page are much bigger and obtrusive than they need to be. When I opened the page, my mouse went over the "Success Stories" tab, and I saw a big white "Google" logo in the middle of the page. The eye is naturally drawn to it, and I spent a second or two like, "What is that doing there?" until I figured it out.

3) Maybe I would have a slideshow or "arrow-buttons" with more python examples than just the list. Basic usage of a list doesn't sell python as hard as, say, list comprehensions, arbitrarily large integers, and/or manipulating sets.

Looks great; a great improvement over the current one.

Under the font menu (next to 'Go' button) there is a small separator between 'Larger' and 'Reset' options. It does not have any label but acts like 'Larger' option and increases the font when clicked.

If it is just a separator it should not increase the font. Else it should have proper label.

Maybe I've grown too used to the current design, but my first reaction is - yuck, too much like a http://everyfuckingwebsite.com/ clone. I'll try to articulate my dislike as something constructive, and submit feedback directly.