I'm going to second Al's suggestions, especially the part about greatly appreciating the work you're putting into this!
It is a bit busy. Slightly larger but less text would be nice for us older coders. Keith Nemitz Principal Developer Mousechief Co. www.mousechief.com ________________________________ From: Al Sweigart <a...@inventwithpython.com> To: pygame-users@seul.org Sent: Saturday, April 5, 2014 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [pygame] preview of new pygame website... HiFi part I don't want this critique to sound brutal, so I'll preface it with this: I'm really glad you're doing the work of a redesign. But here are some things you should fix: In general: * Way less text. * Fewer categories. * Replace the sliding behavior with separate pages and tabs at the top. Get rid of the columnar layout on each slide: it's so wide that it's uncomfortable on my (fairly high resolution) laptop, and it's completely unusable on mobile. Specifics: * Add "Download" and "Documentation" (instead of "learn") as top links; these are the most important things people need when they come to the site. * The recent releases should use the small screenshots, and not have the text. It should be much smaller: just title, screenshot thumbnail, and it's two or three commonmost tags. (Add the date of its release as well.) * I think tweets and reddit are good ideas (we should be promoting those resources), but lose the videos section: it takes up a lot of space without providing much value and it won't be updated as often as the tweets and reddit sections anyway. * We can probably cut the About section down to a fifth of its current word count. I can do this if you want. We should also have About section on the front page. * The tutorials, cookbook, and resources sections could probably be merged and streamlined. I think it would be a good idea to have the cookbook in a familiar mediawiki format. * Rename "make" to "Dev", which is a more familiar word to use for a page related to development of Pygame itself. * Get rid of the "awesome" page. The content that goes here can probably go elsewhere. Thanks again for doing this! The current website has worked well, but has had a few warts that would be nice to iron out. -Al On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:36 AM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, > >here's a preview of the HiFi part of the new pygame website... > >http://pygame.org/hifi.html > >What do you think? >
