[Pydotorg-redesign] Rearranging the python.org sidebar (again!)

[Matt Goodall]

Oktay Safak wrote:

>"Brett C." <bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
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>>Now I have a question about acronyms.  Currently there is a link to IDLE 
>>and PEPs.  Newbies will have no clue what either are.  IDLE 
>>unfortunately looks like an acronym.  Perhaps we can change the link to 
>>"IDLE editor" or something to make it more obvious what IDLE is?  And as 
>>for PEPs, we should just spell it out and put the acronym in parentheses 
>>like the PSF is done on.
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>Tool-tips might be a good option here.
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We tend to scan web pages very quickly with our eyes so I doubt tooltips 
will help much here. Tooltips are great for providing additional 
information about a link the reader has already seen but are not so good 
for catching their attention in the first place.

What about "Builtin IDE (IDLE)" and "Enhancement Proposals"? Perhaps 
with tooltips to describe them in more detail if that is useful.

I'm not even sure these links should be so prominent anyway. IDLE should 
be mentioned in the tutorials, in a bullet point list of Python 
strengths/features and in the list of editors. PEPs are only really of 
interest to more advanced users so they'll already know exactly where to 
find them.

As an aside, I really think that the top-left part of the nav needs to 
be **completely** set aside for finding out about Python, particularly 
for welcoming beginners.

- Matt

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