In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Agreed. The main page should be like a slick book cover. It should grab >you and leave you wanting more. I think the beta page does that pretty >well. > > [...] > >Of course, I'm a minimalist. I understand techy types want the details, >but I don't doubt the details will be no more than two clicks away.
Which sort of gets to the heart of the argument: who is www.python.org for? I suggested one alternative a long time ago, but we never had the bandwidth to do the necessary refactor: The idea is that we make www.python.org even more minimal than the current beta.python.org; it becomes a portal similar in simplicity to google.com (with a bit more explanation). It would lead off to subdomains such as business.python.org, tech.python.org, help.python.org, and so on. That would make it easy for people to bookmark a specific section that was appropriate for their needs. If we can't do that, I think we should overall slant the focus toward the primary users of python.org: people wanting to learn Python and people doing real work in using Python. (I have mostly been keeping my mouth shut during this discussion because I'm one of the [EMAIL PROTECTED] team and therefore should be contibuting labor to make this happen -- but I haven't had the bandwidth.) -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
