[Pydotorg-redesign] Design, Logo's, Images

[Matt Goodall]

On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 17:08, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> I wonder how the navigation would work on your design.

My comments below have nothing to do with one design or the another.
It's just a collection of thoughts I had as a read Walter's post.


>  On the start page
> (i.e. level 0 of the navigation) level 1 and 2 of the navigation are
> unfolded. What happens when you click on a level 1 link? Will all other
> level 1 links be folded, i.e. would the navigation look like this:
> 
>  > About
>       For Beginners
>       For Developers
>       For Business
>    Download
>    Documentation
>    Community
>    ...

First, something solid to think about ...

If possible, I think we should aim for _no_ folding at all although that
depends on just how many links are needed in the menu.

... and now something decidedly wobbly, which is probably best ignored
;) ...

Something to *consider*, and I think it's been suggested before, is to
have distinct parts of the site dedicated to a certain type of user:
subsites if you like. The top nav could contain links to the subsites;
left-hand nav is specific to the subsite.

I admit that I have no idea what would go in which subsite but some of
the more obvious "splits" are end users, advocacy & marketing and core
development. Imagine finding out about Python, wandering along to the
site and discovering an entire subsite dedicated to learning Python. For
repeat users there would be targeted content - interesting news, package
releases and heaps of documentation. The core developer subsite could
contain bug trackers, cvs info, perhaps viewcvs and ... I'm not sure
what else.

This might also make it easier to delegate site maintenance to others.
It would make it more obvious anyway.

Is the site actually big enough for this? Probably not but there's no
harm in thinking bigger in anticipation of Python's dominance :). Even
if the site is big enough, there be a lot of overlap in content so it
may not be terribly realistic anyway.


> What happens on a level 2 page? Will the level 2 siblings of the
> current page be shown (i.e. like this:

I think if the menu gets 2 levels deep then it's too deep. Also, the
more levels there are, the shorter the link text can be - the menu needs
to be as thin as possible to leave room for the actual content.


> What happens on lower levels (if we ever have them)?

I don't even want to think about that ;-).


- Matt

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