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

Russell E. Owen rowen at uw.edu
Thu Mar 22 19:49:54 CET 2012

In article <4F6B5B33.9020406 at pearwood.info>, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

... My first impression of this page:

http://www.python.org/~gbrandl/build/html/index.html was that the grey side-bar gives the page a somber, perhaps even dreary, look. First impressions count, and I'm afraid that first look didn't work for me. But clicking through onto other pages with more text improved my feelings. A big +1 on the pale green shading of code blocks. The basic design seems good to me. I'd prefer a serif font for blocks of text, while keeping sans serif for the headings, but that's a mild preference. Looking forward to seeing the next iteration.

I like the overall design, but one thing seems to be missing is an overview of what Python is (hence what the page is about). Naturally we don't need that, but a one-line overview with a link to more information would be helpful.

-- Russell

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