[Pydotorg-redesign] HTML version of design

[Walter Dörwald]

Matt Goodall wrote:

> [...]
>>Yup, but to me "works" == "friendly".  ;-)  (Don't forget that I'm
>>judging how it looks in Lynx.)  I'm perfectly willing to leave purely
>>esthetic judgments to other people.
> 
> Is it the way that Walter's design expands the navigational menu on
> demand that you particularly like?
> 
> _Personally_, I'm not a big fan of expanding menus as it just means more
> clicks for me. It can also introduce a bit of guesswork for people who
> don't know the site unless the navigational headers are blindingly
> obvious. "Documentation" is fine but take "Community" for example. Would
> we expect a newbie to understand that properly without more context?
> What about when it has "mailing lists", "events", "user groups" etc
> right underneath it?

That could easily be changed. The sitemap walker that generates the
navigation only has to be told that level 2 of the navigation has
to be always expanded, even when not on the path to the current page.

> Anyway, this sort of thing is largely subjective ... oh, and browser
> dependent ;-)

Why should this be browser dependant? It uses neither javascript
nor DHTML.

Bye,
    Walter Dörwald