On 22 Jan 2006 14:18:18 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) wrote: > 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.
This is a good idea, particularly if the links are domains as you give in your example, and thus not treated like "deep links" (which too often get broken). The truth is, the comment about being offended by scrollbars made me want to vomit! There are few things more annoying to me than web sites that are designed like Powerpoint presentations. My preference is to condense information onto fewer pages, with more complete information. My expectation of web pages is that they are more like "documents" than like "slides". This is particularly relevant if you are on a slow or high-latency web connection (dialup or satellite, respectively). For me, having the document in my browser puts *me* in control of viewing it, instead of making me click repeatedly through someone else's "clever" idea of what I should read. *I* don't want a "slick brochure" for Python as the website. For all the commercial value in Python (and there is plenty, I am sure), it's not Java, and I don't want it to be. I'm cool with suits loving it too, but I don't want to have to put on a suit to play. Python is an absolutely top-notch free software language for free software developers, not least of which are the amateurs, who program for love, not money. I hesitate to express this opinion, because I don't want to seem intolerant (and I'm going to use whatever site there is), but if the suits can get their own place and leave me alone, I'm for that. ;-) For me, the most important function of the python.org site is as a quick-reference to deeper documentation that I actually need in the process of writing Python code. I don't really know if I'm the "market" for this site. I'm already sold on Python, after all, I just want something useful that I can use to stay up-to-date, and to find other Python resources if they move, get created, or if I just lose track of the URLs. -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
