New python.org website

[Doug Bromley]

I much prefer the look and feel of the potential Ruby websites being
developed at the moment.  The Python site is very corporate and academic
which could put many early adopters off.  I'm sure you've all heard
accusations that Python doesn't have the marketing drive of Ruby.  Perhaps
this is an example where we could do with taking a leaf out of Ruby's book?
(http://redhanded.hobix.com/redesign2005/)

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Doug Bromley
blog.straw-dogs.co.uk



On 8 Mar 2006 14:20:29 -0800, Kay Schluehr <kay.schluehr at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>
> Michael Tobis wrote:
> > > No one
> > > of the complainers and negativists do claim that they could do it much
> > > better.
> >
> > Indeed, I do not have to be able to write a particular program to
> > notice it has bugs.
> >
> > On the other hand, (since I think the design, while not brilliant, is
> > good) fixing the logo is something that can be achieved without too
> > much fuss.
> >
> > > But I think at times it might be usefull to consult
> > > professional aid.
> >
> > In the case of the logo design, I am not sure I agree.
> >
> > I think the twisted logo
> >
> > http://saph.twistedmatrix.com/blog/archives/twisted.png
> >
> > and the PyCon logo
> >
> > http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/Python/pub/old-www/pics/pycon-logo.gif
> >
> > were probably not designed by professional designers but rather by
> > people who appreciate Python, and yet do have more appeal to the
> > community and the outside world alike. If we are going to use a snake
> > motif, we should use snakes that look like snakes.
>
> Maybe its time for me to abandone this discussion. If you and others
> feel quite well represented by a pasty and wordy snake than go for it.
> I do neither feel embraced nor bitten by it. And I don't just mean the
> logo. We can do an awfull lot of comparisons with pages that failed but
> this doesn't bring forth anything.
>
> This evening we talked at the Hofbraeuhaus at Munich about Michelangelo
> whose sixtine chapel images where once overpainted because his figures
> appeared naked "as god created them". But maybe he was wrong and his
> customer, the pope, was right and they were actually born with a leaf
> covered their pubic hairs? The pope had to take responsibility and had
> to appease possible and real critics. We can assume he was far from
> being an idiot but a serious man - a politician. As a serious person
> myself I'm always a little splitted between Michelangelo and the pope.
> My own idealism expects Michelangelo doing such outstanding things that
> it is beyond anything. Nothing could be better than having the uptights
> as the most severe enemies. What a fun! But as it seems my political
> party is guided by ordinary indifferent humans as well and Michelangelo
> may be as much attracted by it as I am by e.g. the german social
> democratic party? So I should track back and rethink "the professional
> aid" which might be not what I'm really looking for. Guido feels a deep
> joy about the resonance between Python and an programmer and artist -
> Juergen Scheible - who likes the language, feels inspired by it and
> creates a little artwork for Nokia 60s. So there is some inversion in
> the right direction. Suddenly Python appears a bit distorted within
> another context and it becomes sexy again. Should we talk about Apple
> next ... ?
>
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