Steve Holden wrote: > How does > > http://beta.python.org/about/beginners/ > > look? > > regards > Steve
Hi, I'm an actualy Python beginner, decided recently to "play" with Python. I'm a "user", not a professional programmer or developer of any sort, so I guess the "beginner's" page would be aimed at folks like me. It looks fine, degrades pretty well in Dillo. But.....it needs more Beginners links and info. The "Why Python" seems a bit out of place, more akin to something that would be on the beta home, which looks a little "corporate brochure site" to me. It also seems a little "bland" as a beginner site goes. A little bit of "fun" and "friendliness" in the spirit of "Python for Everyone" might be something to add. That's what brought me to Python. The idea that Python was not just for people like ESR who've been programmers for decades, or for corporate types designing applications containing a new paradigm of competencies in objective oriented programming, but for high school students, hobbyist programmers and even those who've never written a line of code in their lives. It has been suggested that a Google-like hierarchy might be useful and I agree, though I don't know how that might work in practice. You could have a bland "brochure" site with the proper buzzwords for the corporates, another for the devs with late breaking patches, news, RSS feeds, whatever they need. and one for Education and/or beginners, with perhaps a colorful friendly look. (but perhaps keeping the same basic overall base look) I actually like the look of the current http://www.python.org It packs a lot of useful links in one page and it seems "friendly" Which probably sounds silly to describe an emotional reaction or "feel" to a site. Admittedly it doesn't look "corporate" or "slick professional" but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I agree with others about the new logo. It lacks a certain, pardon the expression, "je ne sais quoi". (one of the things that got me interested in Linux was seeing that penguin associated with the word "Linux" and making me curious about what that Linux thing was all about) But it would make a good logo for a "enterprise.python.org" "business.python.org" So perhaps different logos for different purposes? A cartoony friendly python in front of a blackboard for education (similar to the Pygame python) A python reading a book at the base of a larch for a listing of books That sort of thing. The python.org site's been useful to me, pointing me to interesting software, documentation and whatnot. Though I didn't know about IDLE until I saw it mentioned in a post on Slashdot in a story asking for recommendations for Python IDE's. I am "very" new to Python. CronoCloud (Ron Rogers Jr.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list