[Python-Dev] Playing with a new theme for the docs, iteration 2 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sun Mar 25 10:54:51 CEST 2012

In the header next to "Python v3.3a1 documentation" there is a "ยป" symbol, which suggests something can be expanded. Knowing that there are many versions of the documentation, I thought it might bring up a menu of versions. But clicking does nothing. Is that intentional? I guess it's supposed to mean "go to top" but that wasn't obvious to me.

I think the clickable areas in the header and footer should be indicated with the usual coloring (either the scheme you currently use, or perhaps as Ben suggests blue and purple as in "traditional" HTML documents). I agree that what you do looks nice and is sufficiently functional once you realize it, but I've seen a lot of research that indicates that up to 60% of users can't find all the links on a page unless they're explicitly marked. (In one focus group 4 of 14 users never found a menu that took up 40% of the area of the page!)

My first impression of the "questionable feature" that the sidebar is aligned with the scroll position when expanded is that it's useful.

It looks pretty good without CSS, too!

On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:

Here's another try, mainly with default browser font size, more contrast and collapsible sidebar again:

http://www.python.org/~gbrandl/build/html2/ I've also added a little questionable gimmick to the sidebar (when you collapse it and expand it again, the content is shown at your current scroll location). Have fun! Georg

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