[Pydotorg-redesign] Sidebar/nav. bar revisions

[A.M. Kuchling]

Here's another round of sidebar changes:
http://www.amk.ca/python.org.html

The "mirror sites" link has been moved down. SIGs and Help have been
dropped from the top navbar, replaced with a "Contact us" page (still
to be written) and "Site map".

Comments?

Secondary issue: given the current plague of viruses (and the
likelihood of future viruses), should we be trying to minimize the
number of times e-mail addresses are given on web pages? The 'Contact
us' page would be a step toward this: this single page would be the
only ones with an e-mail address.

--amk

[Steve Holden]

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A.M. Kuchling
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 7:34 PM
Subject: [Pydotorg-redesign] Sidebar/nav. bar revisions

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Secondary issue: given the current plague of viruses (and the
likelihood of future viruses), should we be trying to minimize the
number of times e-mail addresses are given on web pages? The
'Contact
us' page would be a step toward this: this single page would be the
only ones with an e-mail address.

I'd go one step further and make the "contact us" page a CGI script.
Then the person trying to contact us doesn't need to have an active,
correctly-configured mail client, and we don't make an address available
for harvesting.

regards
--
Steve Holden http://www.holdenweb.com/
Python Web Programming http://pydish.holdenweb.com/pwp/
Interview with GvR August 14, 2003 http://www.onlamp.com/python/

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Post by A.M. Kuchling
Secondary issue: given the current plague of viruses (and the
likelihood of future viruses), should we be trying to minimize the
number of times e-mail addresses are given on web pages? The 'Contact
us' page would be a step toward this: this single page would be the
only ones with an e-mail address.

On the whole I like this, though I'm not at all certain it'll make any
difference in the war on spam & virii.

One issue related to this is that we use different addresses for
different portions of the web site; this will need to be addressed by
either providing different flavors of the contact page or making
people read more to figure out how to contact us. (For example, the
doc/ tree uses ***@python.org for a contact address instead of
webmaster.)


-Fred