[pydotorg-www] Grid for python.org (Was: Website formatting problem)

[anatoly techtonik]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 20 Feb 2012, at 15:40, anatoly techtonik wrote:
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>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 20 Feb 2012, at 13:34, anatoly techtonik wrote:
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>> > Hello web team,
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>> > I wonder if grid based layout would fit python.org? Do anybody have experience with that?
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>> Website design and layout is currently under review by the PSF, so we aren't about to make any substantial layout changes. The specific implementation of the python.org layout will be up to whoever we hire to do the redesign.
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>> In the meantime it would be good to solve this specific problem.
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>> The 'grid' is not a design, but a CSS framwork that is aimed to solve such specific problems - http://960.gs/
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> Site layout by css is *precisely* a design issue.

We may argue about that a lot, but in this context the point is that
visually you won't notice if grid is used or not, but it may eliminate
the bug. For a contrast - design as a visual perception is not "an art
of writing css".

>> P.S. Why PSF is not subscribed to this list if he is doing website design review? Why not to make the process public? ;)
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> "The PSF" is a bunch of individuals, many of whom *are* subscribed to this list. The process will be public. That doesn't mean that all the minutiae will all be endlessly discussed, which is the (incorrect) definition of public that some people use. The call for tenders have not been worked out yet.

Why PSF can't crowd-source the process? There are many "designers" out
there, who can help. Is there a PEP, a FAQ or at least something on
it?
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anatoly t.