On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 02:36:21AM +0000, Hubert via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Thanks for the response! I do agree that the colors are way too "hot" (I've must've been quite tired when I submitted that mockup)
> 
> Someone noted that the concept that I pitched had too much whitespace, which is a sentiment that I do not share. There's a lot of issues with the readability in the current design; way too wide columns just to name one thing. I must also completely disagree with the "90's anachronism" part.
> 
> You may feel that a "Getting started" section and simplified link/navigation structure might be insulting or inefficient, but is the site supposed to cater to the entrenched D-practitioners? As long as the readability and the layout of the documentation is accurate and clear what does it matter to you? There's not any inherent value in complexity.

I do not say that having a simplified link/navigation structure is insulting or inefficient. But I do say the simplification should be via categories that make sense. I.e., "click here to start / click here to watch completely irrelevant marketing video" makes no sense, whereas a breakdown like "News / Download / Get started with D / Reference documentation / Compiler specs / etc." makes sense.

Content-less splash pages are, to me, completely worthless. A properly-designed front page with sensible top-level links to sensible categories, properly designed, will both look and work better. A proper design need not sacrifice content for appeal.


T

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On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:04:04 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been D enthusiast for couple of years now (but I do not participate much in discussions here, although I read forums almost daily), and I keep telling people about D and how awesome it is.
>
> But, all this time D's official website somehow archaic look kept troubling me. It reminds me of early 2000's design and I really cannot associate this design with "modern" or "elegant", what D really is.
> I think that we must invest time and energy improving the website's look and feel as that is what people first coming to D will see. We need to strive for "wow" and not "meh" as a first impression.
>
> So I have started this thread to see if there is a chance for complete redesign of dlang.org.
>
> I have also tried to design something myself (although I'm not a designer) and this is what I came up with:
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> http://krcko.net/dlang.org/dlang-home-draft1.png
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> I'm not entirely satisfied with it but I believe that it looks better (or at least more modern) than the current design.
>
>
> So, what do you guys think?
>
>
>
>
> -- Aleksandar

What's up with this new website design ?
Drafts looked good.

> What's up with this new website design ?
> Drafts looked good.

Yeah, draft looks good, but this didn't got the priority and support it deserves.
My plan is to incrementally improve the current website until it looks reasonable.
Already submitted a bunch of pulls.
You can see a preview here https://dlang.dawg.eu.

On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 12:22:46 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Already submitted a bunch of pulls.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AMartinNowak+is%3Aclosed

I'd be thankful for any help on that.
Cloning dlang.org and running make -f posix.mak should work currently, so it's easy to try out ideas.

On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 12:22:46 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> What's up with this new website design ?
>> Drafts looked good.
>
> Yeah, draft looks good, but this didn't got the priority and support it deserves.

So, is it dead already ?

On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 22:04:45 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 16:32:15 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>> Am 27.07.2014 00:54, schrieb w0rp:

> You can see some running examples on the site now.
>
> http://w0rp.com:8010/library/std.parallelism/

cool stuff, congrats on the progress, i really like it!

from a usability perspective i have two suggestions:

1) re-add the alphabetic list of classes, functions etc, either on top or better in a sidebar as e.g. ruby has it:
http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/String.html
it helps a lot if you are new and want to get a quick overview whats possible within a given module.

2) currently clicking on a function name opens a new site with the doc of that function.
 why not load it inline in a collapsable fragment? (could also be a simple + button that allows this in addition to the link)
this would greatly help when quickly going trough a number of functions in a module.

cheers
y