Friday, September 5, 2008
New Look for a New Day
With the recent release of Django 1.0 we thought it was only fitting to give the This Week in Django site a makeover. In the mix we’ve brought together a whole bunch of content to repurpose This Week in Django to be a formidable source for all things Django.
One thing that has become clear to us over the past several months is that we are generating a lot of content and it’s scattered all over the place. Going forward we will be aggregating the podcast, callcasts, screencasts, tutorials and links. We hope you like what we’ve done.
We recognize there’s some missing commas here and there, and a few style sheets that are just giving us fits. We’ll be working on all of that in the days / weeks to come. Until then, enjoy, and be sure to tell us how we can improve things.
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Brian Rosner said…
Test me.
Horst Gutmann said…
2nd try ;-)
Just beautiful. Congratulations :D
A question, though: On the right side there is this "Weekly poll" thing. How can you participate in that? Are there normal user accounts or something like that, because I couldn't find any login form :-)
brixtonasias said…
Nice, really really nice! I like the new design!
Jannis Leidel said…
Great redesign, you truly outdid yourself again!
Thanks guys!
Eric Florenzano said…
I'm your biggest fanboy! Awesome redesign!!!
Simon Willison said…
Site looks absolutely fantastic! Congratulations.
Just one suggestion: how about making the "incoming links" a bit more prominent on the homepage (above the fold, maybe with "2 hours ago" style dates to emphasize how fresh the content is). I've been thinking for ages that Django could really do with a good links news service, and you guys are in an excellent position to provide that.
Thomasc said…
Good work guys! The design is so ........pretty!!
Alex Holt said…
Hey guys! great redesign.. really clean. Fits the bill perfectly :)
Look forward to the site being as much of a resource as the podcast has been ;) keep it up.
kevin said…
thanks for the kind words everyone. keep the comments, suggestions coming. we realize there are some tweeks left ot make but we were just really excited to get this up for everyone.
And please feel free to start submitting articles, links, screencasts, etc. We're hoping this build out into a terrific django community site.
Vitaly Babiy said…
WOW, guys great work on the redesign.
Julian said…
Wow! Looks great!
httpdss said…
Damn ! this is a huge improvement ! Django community never ends to impress me.
Great job guys !
Aaron said…
The new design looks great, and it's nice that you've got all of your info organized. I should be coming here more than once a week now.
Empty said…
simonw: it's funny because Kevin had the links above the fold and I moved them down. I guess I should have trusted the designer on that one. Thanks everyone for the nice comments.
Nuno Mariz said…
This is a beautiful design. Good work!
Ken said…
Love this site! Thanks for putting up all the content and screencasts and keep up the great work.