il Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:27:50 +0900, james_b <james_b / neurogami.com> ha scritto:: >There's a link on Sean McGrath's web log [0] (well worth reading) to a >mock-up of an imagined Python home page [1]. As Sean describes it, the >design is "problem oriented." It presents Python as a product or tool >for solving problems, with targeted (though non-working) links for >different audiences. > >Unlike many language or software home pages, it does not assume that a >visitor has already made a decision to use it; instead, it seems to make >an effort to sell the language to potential users. just my 2 cents: I think that is really clever. BTW, in the mainlines it resembles http://www.rebol.com , or http://www.tcl.tk , java.sun.com etc.. I think that's worth noting: - beginners' access - news (releases, Conferences etc) - articles and web-stuff (community aka wiki aka related websites) - docs & downloads - success stories and propaganda. now, if you look at the actual ruby-lang.org you'll find: - whats' ruby (~beginners) - news about conferences and releases - community links - documntation and downloads links now: where is the differnce? 1- we're not pushing 'success stories' Possibly we could just add a random quote like python.org actually does. I like this. It makes the casual reader think 'Hey that's not a toy!' BTW I just took a look at RealWorlRuby and it's impressive how that page has grown in the last months ^_^ 2- Our homepage, is , possibly , too noisy. There are more than 60 links! notice that this may appear as a problem even in the real python website and in the tcl one. On the opposite, take a look at http://www.eiffel.com 3- what's the point in having the 'Whats new' box? Are'nt this news those in the main column ? 4- Why the duplication for the left column Download->Documentation and Documentation->more ? Duplication is bad, you know.. 5- the RAA-updates box communicates very little. Possibly we should limit it to less entries, but with the complete short description. Compare these: rdindex: rdindex ruby-gst: Ruby bindings for .. ruby-gnome2: Ruby-GNOME2 ruby-dbi: Ruby/DBI with this: New Reblet: IOS Sharing Manager. A handy tool for IOS administrators. And obiouvly, having click&open menus/submenus would be a really cool think and a really good usability enhancement :) But probably, the point in all this is that the 'concept-art' is always better than reality ;) PS obviously I'd like to thank all the people that help to keep ruby-lang.org updated and that spend time to make it work. As usual, those that don't work, speak , and I'm a great speaker and a bad worker PPS ruby-lang.org Powered by Ruby version 1.6.7 ???