Redesign of Python site

Eduardo Alvarez !spamispeople!punga at great-atuin.net
Sun Sep 7 16:03:41 EDT 2003


In article <mk6dnVAQUbZrTceiXTWJkg at comcast.com>, Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> "rt lange" <whiteywidow at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns93EEDC144D362whiteywidowyahoocom at 216.77.188.17...
>> came across this page searching feedster.
>> dont know whether this is the official resdesign or just a proposal;
>> but the mockups look very nice.
> 
> YUCK< YUCK< YUCK.
> 
>> http://www.pollenation.net/journal/index.php?p=37&c=1
>>
>> main page mockup:
>> http://www.pollenation.net/assets/public/python-main.html
> 
> The old site is very readable.  Using IE6, I need a magnifying glass
> to read this page.  This is done in the arrogant style of 'we know
> better than you what type size you should have'.  Also known as the
> 'control the user experience' school.  Awful.  For me, one of the
> worse pages I have ever seen.  Anti-Pythonic.
> 
>> interior page:
>> http://www.pollenation.net/assets/public/python-interior.html
> 
> Only slightly better.  The low contrast gray-on-gray comments page is
> also barely readable.  (Others reported the same.)  For my
> less-than-perfect 50+ year-old eyes, it is physically the WORST
> comments page I have ever seen.  It is a case study in
> anti-accessibility design.  The person responsible should not touch
> our site.
> 
> Terry J. Reedy
> 
> 
> 
> Terry J. Reedy
> 
> 
> only slightly better.
> 
> 

mmmm...I only seem to see an image of the proposal.  is it possible to
see an actual HTML version of it?  The easiest test in my opinion would
be to run it by lynx, and see how readable it is then...

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