Inspired by the recent developments, and Sebastiaan Koppe's version [1] specifically, I gave it a go, too:

http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/

It's not as radical as other approaches. I didn't start from scratch, but tried to improve on what's there. Almost everything stayed in its place. The only thing that moved significantly is the search box. And I'm not sure about the new spot; may be better to put it above #content again.

I worked mostly on the general appearance, not on the content, not on the navigation hierarchy, not on styling specific pages. I did very minor adjustments to the homepage, though. Like fixing the grammar of the slogan ;) And I stole Sebastiaan's tables, as can be seen on property.html, for example.

I tried to keep all functionality, not cutting things for the sake of looking clean. I did kill two little details though:
* "D 2.066.1" in the menu -- What's the point of that linking to the home page? Maybe bring it back as "Home".
* the GitHub ribbon on download.html -- Because I hate it.

The site supposed to scale nicely with window size and font size. E.g., try resizing the window, or pressing Ctrl++ until the layout switches to 'mobile' (go back to default with Ctrl+0).

On that note, I changed the main font size to 1em, period. That's a thing I feel kinda strongly about. It's just the right thing to do (TM) in my opinion.

I have not been a good committer, so there's lots of cleanup to do. But aside from that, this is supposed to mergeable as it is.

Destroy.

[1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/erksyjogigdbhuwpwnzn@forum.dlang.org

On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 02:43:47 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> Inspired by the recent developments, and Sebastiaan Koppe's version [1] specifically, I gave it a go, too:
>
> http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/

Interesting, and just for fun I changed the  CSS a bit: http://i.imgur.com/ijLxXe2.png :)

Matheus.

On 1/23/15 8:04 PM, MattCoder wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 02:43:47 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> Inspired by the recent developments, and Sebastiaan Koppe's version
>> [1] specifically, I gave it a go, too:
>>
>> http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/

I like this design. It changes the logo so that deserves some scrutiny. If there's consensus it's better, we can use it.

> Interesting, and just for fun I changed the  CSS a bit:
> http://i.imgur.com/ijLxXe2.png :)

The red band at the top is a bit odd.

Folks, no takers on the suggestion to add nice pictograms to the menu items?


Andrei

On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 04:09:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Interesting, and just for fun I changed the  CSS a bit:
>> http://i.imgur.com/ijLxXe2.png :)
>
> The red band at the top is a bit odd.

Really?

Oh yeah it's. I just was trying to fill the top with something... Bad luck! :)

Matheus.

On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 02:43:47 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> Destroy.

It is rather... red...

Good logo integration, but I'm not that excited about everything else. The header-less page looks unusual, and what remains of the black background is now an uneven border that's neither here nor there. The bright blue used for the links also clashes with the gigantic red sidebar.

On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 04:20:00 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 02:43:47 UTC, anonymous wrote:
>> Destroy.
>
> Good logo integration,
I agree with this, maybe should be considered for current site.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 02:43:45AM +0000, anonymous via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Inspired by the recent developments, and Sebastiaan Koppe's version [1] specifically, I gave it a go, too:
> 
> http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/

Not bad! I actually like this one. The only obvious object I have is the unbroken bar of red on the left. I think it might look much better if we darken the "sky" above the Mars horizon where the D logo sits. Not completely black, but a much darker red that it currently is, to provide some visual contrast.

And maybe fade out the red towards the bottom of the page. Just something to soften the otherwise prominent red strip on the left.


[...]
> The site supposed to scale nicely with window size and font size. E.g., try resizing the window, or pressing Ctrl++ until the layout switches to 'mobile' (go back to default with Ctrl+0).

Very nice! I like how when I split my screen to half-width, it automatically collapses the left navigation bar into an expandable button. Not sure how you achieved that (JS?) but that neatly solves the handheld vs. desktop dilemma that some of the other proposals suffer from.


> On that note, I changed the main font size to 1em, period. That's a thing I feel kinda strongly about. It's just the right thing to do (TM) in my opinion.

+1, thank you thank you thank you for doing this. I constantly get annoyed at sites that try to force the base font to something other than 1em (the worst is setting font size in px, which is almost always wrong because they assume a certain screen resolution that inevitably isn't mine) and thereby screw up my preferred font size in the browser. The usual result is either over-cramped text overflowing from divs, or unreadable microscopic font sizes, accompanied by assorted bleeding layout elements that fail to fit because it's too rigid to adjust to my screen size. Makes me pull out my CSS stick and discard the site's CSS by forcing user CSS (plaintext ftw!).

This proposal, OTOH, makes me feel comfortable. The spacing between the list items on the left seems a bit too sparse (either that, or the font size is a tad too small), but the general look-n-feel of this is much better than some of the other proposals I've looked at. It's the first one that doesn't make me cringe, anyway. I'd vote for it if it's in the PR queue.


T

-- 
"I speak better English than this villain Bush" -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:41:18PM -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 02:43:45AM +0000, anonymous via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > Inspired by the recent developments, and Sebastiaan Koppe's version [1] specifically, I gave it a go, too:
> > 
> > http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/
> 
> Not bad! I actually like this one. The only obvious object I have is
                                                      ^^^^^^
Argh, I meant "objection". That'll teach me to reply to forum posts
after my brain has shutdown for the night.


T

-- 
Once bitten, twice cry...

On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 06:43:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Very nice! I like how when I split my screen to half-width, it
> automatically collapses the left navigation bar into an expandable
> button. Not sure how you achieved that (JS?) but that neatly solves the
> handheld vs. desktop dilemma that some of the other proposals suffer
> from.

dlang.org has had that for a few days now.

On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 02:43:47 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> Inspired by the recent developments, and Sebastiaan Koppe's version [1] specifically, I gave it a go, too:
>
> http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/
>
> It's not as radical as other approaches. I didn't start from scratch, but tried to improve on what's there. Almost everything stayed in its place. The only thing that moved significantly is the search box. And I'm not sure about the new spot; may be better to put it above #content again.
>
> I worked mostly on the general appearance, not on the content, not on the navigation hierarchy, not on styling specific pages. I did very minor adjustments to the homepage, though. Like fixing the grammar of the slogan ;) And I stole Sebastiaan's tables, as can be seen on property.html, for example.
>
> I tried to keep all functionality, not cutting things for the sake of looking clean. I did kill two little details though:
> * "D 2.066.1" in the menu -- What's the point of that linking to the home page? Maybe bring it back as "Home".
> * the GitHub ribbon on download.html -- Because I hate it.
>
> The site supposed to scale nicely with window size and font size. E.g., try resizing the window, or pressing Ctrl++ until the layout switches to 'mobile' (go back to default with Ctrl+0).
>
> On that note, I changed the main font size to 1em, period. That's a thing I feel kinda strongly about. It's just the right thing to do (TM) in my opinion.
>
> I have not been a good committer, so there's lots of cleanup to do. But aside from that, this is supposed to mergeable as it is.
>
> Destroy.
>
> [1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/erksyjogigdbhuwpwnzn@forum.dlang.org

it looks better than the current one however when i expand the menus, the sub menus opened don't feel like they are a part of (ie.) d reference menu or community menu. guess making it clear would be better.

one question for everyone: do we really need 3-col web site?