[python-win32] Request for comments

[Mike Driscoll]

Tim Golden wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">[Ton van 
> Vliet]
>> IMHO the links could be a bit more visible.
>>
>> When looking at the 'Where do I begin' paragraph, it took me quite 
>> some time to notice that there *were* actually links in there (after 
>> being taken there by clicking on the 'Where do I begin' link in the 
>> left hand column already several times)
>>
>> Using Opera and FF on W2K at 1600x1200
>
> [Larry Bates]
>> On my monitors the blue links look "fuzzy".
>> Table of contents blue on blue is hard for me to read.
>> While I'm not crazy about the pink background, that is probably a 
>> personal preference.
>> (Windows XP Pro, running dual monitors at 1600 x 1200). 
>
> Thanks, Larry and Ton. FWIW, my visual design skills are pretty
> much nil. The best I can hope for is "clean and workmanlike". I 
> inherited most of the Sphinx default styles (including
> that red-on-pink for the warning) and adjusted a few, not least
> to make a clear distinction from the official Python docs.
>
> For now, I've modifed the styles to something a little more bland,
> using the conventional blue for links and a mild grey for the sidebar.
> I've left the red-on-pink, partly because it only appears for warnings
> and if it jars a bit, well that's probably not a bad thing in the circs.
> While I do want the appearance to be both attractive and readable,
> I'm trying to avoid spending too much time poking at RGB codes in
> the hope of achieving Visual Nirvana :)
>
> The front page is in one way the most important page and I'm not
> at all sure I've got it right yet. (Suggestions will be appreciated). But
> for now, my focus is getting content in, without which the front page
> is so much vapourware.
>
> Thanks v. much for the input. Keep it coming.
>
> TJG
>
> </div>

Tim,

I was looking at the front page and thought it might be nice to have a 
section devoted to Networking / Remote Access. Or maybe that's rolled 
into one of the other categories and I missed it.

In the "building and deploying" section, I see you have MinGW. I have a 
generic tutorial on how to compile extensions using that compiler that 
you're welcome to use and/or re-work for your site. You can find it 
here: http://pythonlibrary.org/mingw.htm  If you need help, let me know.

I have a similar one for VS2003, but it's much rougher 
(http://pythonlibrary.org/visual_studio.htm).

Also, there's a cool wrapper for py2exe called GUI2exe that makes using 
it much easier (at least for me): 
http://xoomer.alice.it/infinity77/main/GUI2Exe.html

Mike