[Pydotorg-redesign] HTML version of design

[Walter Dörwald]

Aahz wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2003, Walter Dörwald wrote:
> 
>>Walter wrote:
>>
>>>Aahz wrote:
>>>
>>>>Also, what I think I'd prefer to an "expanding" design is a
>>>>"collapsing" design that gives a good context-sensitive menu.  We've
>>>>currently got a half-assed look like that; I'd like it cleaned up and
>>>>generalized.
>>>
>>>OK, then I'll try to extract the global site structure from all the
>>>links.h files and try to generate a navigation from that.
>>
>>The HTML version with automatically generated navigation is finished:
>>http://styx.livinglogic.de/~walter/www.python.org-converted/
> 
> 
> Hmmm...  That wasn't what I meant.  In the current design, *all* the
> top-level structure except the top-level links vanishes when you drill
> down, but I don't think keeping all those links is any better.

Unfortunately *all* links on the frontpage are in the other-links
section in index.ht. If we add those to the navigation, we get what
I've generated. If the links for other-links are only one the page
itself, we get what we have now.

> What I'd
> like to see when you click on, say, the PSF link would be something like
> 
> Special topics
> Popular links
>     PSF Home
>         About the PSF
>         Mission statement
>         Donations
>         Membership roster
>         Public records
>         Bylaws
>         Press releases
> See also
> Exits

Exactly, so we should move those links that should always be visible
into a links.ht on the top level. That would at least give us a
resonable definition of the site structure, although ht2html can't
cope with it.

> That's not something we can do easily right now, since it requires some
> of that major restructure I'm trying to avoid, but I'd like that
> capability built in, and I think we can probably do at least some of it
> without the full restructure.
> 
> I'm out of town Sun through Thurs with limited Net access, so don't
> expect much from me for a week.

OK.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald