[Jython-dev] Jython Website Feedback

[Mike G. <mgr...@gm...>]

Hi all,
I'm new to the list, or at least I have been lurking on here for a few
weeks. I have discussed with Josh Juneau and Tobias Ivarsson (care of
my blog) about giving feedback on the Jython Website.

Anyway, here is the feedback as requested. As a little disclaimer
please take what I say with a grain of salt, I am not a usability
expert or web designer.

I have two main issues with the website currently:
1) Its kinda ugly
2) Its not very useful

so what could be done to make it less ugly and more usable? In my opinion:

1) Remove the accordion thing on the right side.
Suggestion: Maybe show the latest tweet by http://twitter.com/jython
somewhere on the page. If you want, you can collate the python twitter
discussion (on a community page or something where you can also
collate blog entries and such)

The rest of the information in the side menu I would just let go. All
that information is available in the wiki(or should be) and once
again, you could put the irc chat information in a community
section(or in the wiki if its not already there).

2)Reorganize the menu links
Suggestion: I don't think there need to be as many links as there
currently are in the sidebar. We can probably get away with Home,
About, Download, Documentation(linking directly to the wiki) and Code.

Honestly, the first time I visited the Jython site, I was really
surprised there was not a link to the source code anywhere on the main
webpage(I was equally suprised to end up on something that wasn't
Trac, seeing as you guys deal in python and SVN)

As for the individual wiki links, everything that is listed in that
side menu is also available and linked on the first page of the wiki
so those are just taking up unnecessary space.

I guess my last complaint would be to put more information about the
actual project on the main page. I realize that "Jython: Python for
the Java Platform" is pretty self explanatory but more information
would probably be useful to new visitors.

Anyway, those are just 2 simple things that I think would bring about
a huge improvement with the website, at least in my opinion. I am
around for the next few days and will be available to discuss
this/face your criticism :P , then I am off to Hawaii for a couple of
weeks. But if any help is needed with the website or anything else, I
would be glad to help after I get back.

cheers,
Mike