Hi everyone, It's really exciting to see the community offering to help in this endeavor. I myself spent quite a bit of time last year driving a redesign effort for djangoproject.com, so I thought I'd share my work with you now while the momentum is picking up again.
So, using some initial briefing and feedback from Russell, Jacob, Idan and Christian, I had designed a new IA and then built a working prototype: http://www.djangoproject.dotcloud.com/ Login details: preview/ihud8t4k I'd like to emphasize that this is a *prototype*. The visuals were intentionally left rough and unpolished, and even the IA itself was a work in progress. I've seen many great ideas so far in this thread, so please feel free to rip this prototype off, or to just get some inspiration from it, or to simply ignore it altogether. Technically-speaking, the front end uses Sass and Compass and it implements the responsive Less framework [1]. To see an example of the responsive behavior, try resizing your browser window on the homepage [2]. I had also spent a lot of time tweaking the documentation's layout and styles to make it easy to view across screen sizes [3]. For example, the sidebar collapses into a clickable button on small screens. Another example is with large images as in [4]; as the window gets smaller, the image shrinks along with the window and becomes clickable on small screens — this is to allow mobile users to access the full-width image without breaking the layout. However, will all that said, it might eventually be worth considering to move the documentation entirely to RTD one day (with some special branding). The prototype's code is available on github [5]. I hope this is of some help to the person or team that will be driving this project. Kindly, Julien [1] http://lessframework.com/ [2] Prototype homepage: http://www.djangoproject.dotcloud.com/ [3] Documentation prototype: http://docs.djangoproject.dotcloud.com/en/dev/ [4] http://docs.djangoproject.dotcloud.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/triaging-tickets/#triage-workflow [5] Prototype's code: https://github.com/jphalip/djangoproject.com/tree/visual-redesign -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
