On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 15:54:31 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> Here's a variant with a grey background and the old logo, suggested by veelo on GitHub: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/variants/grey-oldlogo/

I like it too! :)

PS: One thing that I think which would be nice from this new
layout is to take out the border and the padding-top of the main
content, example: http://i.imgur.com/fhkZYCP.png

Matheus.

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 19:34:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Looking at both variants side-by-side, I think your grey version is much
> better. The original design is far too red. However, the grey version is
> also noticeably darker; maybe both the menu and the stream boxes on the
> right should be lightened up a bit? I'm thinking even a silver-metallic
> look might work. I'm no graphic designer, though, so take my word with a
> grain of salt. :-)

Neither am I. I have no idea how to pull off a "silver-metallic look".

>> I can't seem to find a good border color for a lighter menu
>> background, because the lightness of the border comes close to that of
>> the page background, and they blend.
>
> What about making both brighter?

I'm already in over my head here. So, maybe, I guess? But if it's an improvement over the status quo, I'd like to try without touching all the colors. They can always be fine-tuned later on. Preferably by someone who knows their color ABC a little better than me.

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 15:54:31 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 20:02:12 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> PR: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/869 - For details see here.
>> Live version: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com - If you've visited this before, you may have to clear your cache to see the proper logo color.
>
> Here's a variant with a grey background and the old logo, suggested by veelo on GitHub: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/variants/grey-oldlogo/

Lovely design, I liked the red one better but well.

Am I the only one to find the DMD 2.066.1 mention out of place and redundant?

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 20:09:05 UTC, ponce wrote:
> Am I the only one to find the DMD 2.066.1 mention out of place and redundant?

No I agree. Only useful for visitors that know their compiler version by heart and instantly recognise a new version. If it stays it should probably link to the corresponding version in the changelog?

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 20:09:05 UTC, ponce wrote:
> Am I the only one to find the DMD 2.066.1 mention out of place and redundant?

Not at all. I think someone else mentioned it, too. And I don't like it either. But it can be changed independently, so I'm not doing it here.

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 20:27:27 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 20:09:05 UTC, ponce wrote:
>> Am I the only one to find the DMD 2.066.1 mention out of place and redundant?
>
> Not at all. I think someone else mentioned it, too. And I don't like it either. But it can be changed independently, so I'm not doing it here.

In the same vein:

* the GitHub ribbon on download.html
* finally splitting up the change log
* a search option for the language reference

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 15:54:31 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 20:02:12 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> PR: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/869 - For details see here.
>> Live version: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com - If you've visited this before, you may have to clear your cache to see the proper logo color.
>
> Here's a variant with a grey background and the old logo, suggested by veelo on GitHub: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/variants/grey-oldlogo/

Much nicer IMO. The red looks relatively nice, but it's way too flashy and distracting.

As with the current website though, I wish the logo was higher res or SVG. The logo looks quite pixelated on a zoomed browser / high res screen.

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 15:57:36 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 15:54:31 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 20:02:12 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>>> PR: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/869 - For details see here.
>>> Live version: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com - If you've visited this before, you may have to clear your cache to see the proper logo color.
>>
>> Here's a variant with a grey background and the old logo, suggested by veelo on GitHub: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/variants/grey-oldlogo/
>
> Looks more natural than current dlang.org to me

I like the grey but very much prefer the new logo. I've always found the old logo too busy. Three (count 'em) borders, a drop shadow, numerous gradients all just distract from the iconic D and moons that should be the focus.

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 22:17:39 UTC, Kapps wrote:
> As with the current website though, I wish the logo was higher res or SVG. The logo looks quite pixelated on a zoomed browser / high res screen.

We can replace it with a SVG, no problem. But without some sort of fallback, 7% of visitors won't see it at all: http://caniuse.com/svg

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 15:54:31 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> Here's a variant with a grey background and the old logo, suggested by veelo on GitHub: http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/variants/grey-oldlogo/

Made a pull request for this version: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/876