On 2015-12-20 03:04, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
> It looks good. A bit more clear than the current one. Not a fan of the
> drop downs though. Just personal taste.
>
> All in all, though, is that design really so much different from the
> current one? Yes, the frontpage / color scheme looks nicer, but it's not
> that big of a diff, or?
>
> If the D website maintainers are to put an effort into changing its
> design, would it not be preferable to go "all-in" and jazz it up, e.g.
> like http://www.scala-lang.org/ ?

They have the big background image the adds a lot of color to the site. I guess it would be possible to use a background image instead of the gray background color at the top.

> For instance, I am pretty new to D, and when I entered the D website I
> was not looking for code samples, but a list of features or core
> concepts / principles.

That would be the "Why D?" section.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-12-20 06:12, Charles wrote:

> kind of a neat project here... mind if I help out?

Sure, that would be great. Although I don't really want to do anything until Walter and Andrei approve the design.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-12-19 23:09, Tanel Tagaväli wrote:

> I love it.
> Especially the navigation bar being horizontal and absolutely positioned.
> Once I have the time, I could help work on this.

That would be great. Although I don't really want to do anything until Walter and Andrei approve the design.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 12/20/15, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 2015-12-20 01:11, wobbles wrote:
>
>> Personally I prefer the buttons on the side.
>> Probably 99% of people have widescreen format now (at leas 16:9), so I
>> feel buttons at the top use up precious vertical space.
>
> The top menu is 40px high. The left menu of the current dlang.org is 224px wide. A top menu uses the space more efficient. I also think it's easier to adapt for mobile with a top menu.

Yeah I agree. Also currently I have to scroll to see the entire menu, while I wouldn't have to do that with the new layout. If there's more horizontal space then we should take advantage of it, the new layout looks great.

On 20 Dec 2015 7:31 pm, "Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d" < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/20/15, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> > On 2015-12-20 01:11, wobbles wrote:
> >
> >> Personally I prefer the buttons on the side.
> >> Probably 99% of people have widescreen format now (at leas 16:9), so I
> >> feel buttons at the top use up precious vertical space.
> >
> > The top menu is 40px high. The left menu of the current dlang.org is 224px wide. A top menu uses the space more efficient. I also think it's easier to adapt for mobile with a top menu.
>
> Yeah I agree. Also currently I have to scroll to see the entire menu, while I wouldn't have to do that with the new layout. If there's more horizontal space then we should take advantage of it, the new layout looks great.

I'd like to see a more complete menu in the new layout to get a better feel for it.  It certainly looks the part with the small set of key features of dlang on display.  But how will it fair showing the entire language or library reference list items?

On Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 23:20:31 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> ...But how will it fair showing the entire language or library reference list items?

I think the "Library Reference" link would be there, but the "List of Items" NOT. It should have a different page for the list or it will be a madness.

JohnCK.

PLEASE! For the sake of everything that is good and right in this world, let this be a thing!

I don't even care about the drop-downs. This is categorically superior to the current site in every relevant way.

Clean, modern, user-friendly, and mobile-friendly design. Easily accessible to both Humans and PageRank.

Please make this a thing!

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// Adam Wilson
// quiet.dlang.dev

On Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 13:50:53 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-12-20 06:12, Charles wrote:
>
>> kind of a neat project here... mind if I help out?
>
> Sure, that would be great. Although I don't really want to do anything until Walter and Andrei approve the design.

Worth noting that this design modifies the logo, which Walter vetoed during the previous redesign.

On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 05:14:34 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 December 2015 at 13:50:53 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2015-12-20 06:12, Charles wrote:
>>
>>> kind of a neat project here... mind if I help out?
>>
>> Sure, that would be great. Although I don't really want to do anything until Walter and Andrei approve the design.
>
> Worth noting that this design modifies the logo, which Walter vetoed during the previous redesign.

It only removes the border, so that it better integrates with the top menu.
The difference between the two seem trivial?

This new design for dlang.org is much easier to use. I hope it replaces the current one.

On 2015-12-21 00:20, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> I'd like to see a more complete menu in the new layout to get a better
> feel for it.  It certainly looks the part with the small set of key
> features of dlang on display.  But how will it fair showing the entire
> language or library reference list items?

There are currently links to the language reference and standard library in the menu (Documentation). But there won't be any submenus, as it is on the current version of dlang.org. Possibly a left menu would be a good fit for this. That is only present on the language reference and standard library pages.

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/Jacob Carlborg