Steve Holden wrote: > How does > > http://beta.python.org/about/beginners/ > > look?
I think it's a well written text, but it looks more like an introductionary chapter in a book about Python than a text for a web site. A book looks the same for all its readers, and it's basically sequential. Books also have readers who've made much more of a commitment to read. They won't click somewhere else just because it was dull for ten seconds- It's clear that this web site is intended to present different information to different kinds of people, but I don't understand for whom *this* text is written... In fact I don't quite understand the "About" section at all, with the subsections "For Beginners", "For Developers" and "For Business" etc. What does "About" mean? Is is "about this web site" or is it "about the Python programming language". About Python it seems. Isn't the whole site about Python? If "about" really means "introduction", why doesn't it say "Introduction". Since the whole section seems to be geared towards people who don't know a lot about Python already, and the "for beginners" page seems to fend off people who are "completely new to programming" with a link, it seems to me that it's either for programmers or for some kind of decision makers or reporters who'd prefer the business page anyway. If we need some general introduction for all, it should be much shorter, more like http://python.org/doc/Summary.html Concerning the next entries in the "About" section (not what you asked about, so this is just a bonus;): I don't like anyone to hand me different texts based on whom I say I am. I want to know what the texts are about and decide for myself where to go. These are texts, not dressing rooms! So, describe the content of each page instead of saying "If you're this kind of guy, we think you should read this page". It's great to take different "actors" into account, but that should not be the public labels on the web site. It's like the desk for dissatisfied customers in a department store. The sign on the outside says "complaints" or something like that. The "stupid customers" sign has to be on the inside. That's not what you present to the stupid customers... Perhaps the "About Section" should look like this? Introduction -What is Python [short summary] -Getting started [a.k.a. for beginners/programmers, how to d/l etc] -Why Python? [a.k.a. for business] -Success Stories -Quotes I don't quite understand why there is a "PSF" entry here. If I went to the Python web site actively looking for info about PSF, I would not look under the introductory "About" menu, but rather under "community". If I'm new to Python, I'd probably ignore that meaningless acronym. Please move to Community and make a link from "Why Python" in a sentence describing how using Python avoids vendor lock in. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list