I don't want this critique to sound brutal, so I'll preface it with this:
I'm really glad you're doing the work of a redesign. But here are some
things you should fix:

In general:
* Way less text.
* Fewer categories.
* Replace the sliding behavior with separate pages and tabs at the top. Get
rid of the columnar layout on each slide: it's so wide that it's
uncomfortable on my (fairly high resolution) laptop, and it's completely
unusable on mobile.

Specifics:
* Add "Download" and "Documentation" (instead of "learn") as top links;
these are the most important things people need when they come to the site.
* The recent releases should use the small screenshots, and not have the
text. It should be much smaller: just title, screenshot thumbnail, and it's
two or three commonmost tags. (Add the date of its release as well.)
* I think tweets and reddit are good ideas (we should be promoting those
resources), but lose the videos section: it takes up a lot of space without
providing much value and it won't be updated as often as the tweets and
reddit sections anyway.
* We can probably cut the About section down to a fifth of its current word
count. I can do this if you want. We should also have About section on the
front page.
* The tutorials, cookbook, and resources sections could probably be merged
and streamlined. I think it would be a good idea to have the cookbook in a
familiar mediawiki
format.
* Rename "make" to "Dev", which is a more familiar word to use for a page
related to development of Pygame itself.
* Get rid of the "awesome" page. The content that goes here can probably go
elsewhere.

Thanks again for doing this! The current website has worked well, but has
had a few warts that would be nice to iron out.

-Al



On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:36 AM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> here's a preview of the HiFi part of the new pygame website...
>
> http://pygame.org/hifi.html
>
> What do you think?
>

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