Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.

Thanks,

Andrei

"Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote in message news:i5ni8j$1nk4$1@digitalmars.com...
> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.
>

I think I would try just getting rid of the red flare in the background, and maybe just make a slightly reddish solid background color. It was a neat idea, but I think getting it to really look right would be a bit difficult.

Everything else seems to look fine though from a quick look-though. Main font size is perfect.

"Nick Sabalausky" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:i5nkrn$1tf2$1@digitalmars.com...
> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote in message news:i5ni8j$1nk4$1@digitalmars.com...
>> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.
>>
>
> I think I would try just getting rid of the red flare in the background, and maybe just make a slightly reddish solid background color. It was a neat idea, but I think getting it to really look right would be a bit difficult.
>
> Everything else seems to look fine though from a quick look-though. Main font size is perfect.

I do have to say, I'm not a fan of justified text. I think it makes spacing look really weird, inconsistent and distracting. But it's not too bad in this case, so I can certainly live with it.

On Thursday 02 September 2010 00:03:33 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei

Overall, it looks good, though I have to agree with Nick that the flare should go. Also, the font seems a bit large to me. The code font in particular is _way_ large. But maybe I just prefer smaller fonts.

- Jonathan M Davis

On 2010-09-02 09:48, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu"<SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org>  wrote in message
> news:i5ni8j$1nk4$1@digitalmars.com...
>> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content.
>> Please give the design one more round of comments.
>>
>
> I think I would try just getting rid of the red flare in the background, and
> maybe just make a slightly reddish solid background color. It was a neat
> idea, but I think getting it to really look right would be a bit difficult.
>
> Everything else seems to look fine though from a quick look-though. Main
> font size is perfect.

I would agree with that and would like to add:

* I don't like most of the graphics, the images, like these:
	* http://d-programming-language.org/images/c1.gif
	* http://d-programming-language.org/images/d3.gif
	* the others with similar style found at: http://d-programming-language.org/images/

* Maybe try an other style for the links
* The table at: http://d-programming-language.org/comparison.html just looks awful. It's mostly the border and the link style doesn't work on that lime green background color and not on the red background either.
* BTW I would update all the tables to use a solid border instead of the current one.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

It looks neat :D Much better than the old one IMHO..

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu < SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:

> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei
>



-- 
-Arth

Andrei Alexandrescu:

> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.

My opinions:
- The menu on the left is too much wide horizontally
- I don't like the "window" that limits the text of the right, and I don't like its border

A small accessibility test: http://i52.tinypic.com/2jetpqg.jpg

Bye,
bearophile

On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:03:33 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei

Few opinions and observations:

1. It is common practice that clicking on site logo links to site root. In this case it goes to digitalmars.com. This should be fixed and separate link to digitalmars.com should be provided in header

2. Flare is good, without it the design would look boring.

3. Many headers have smaller font than the normal text font. Look for instance at the overview page (chromium / linux).

4. I like the size of the basic text and code font.
    - chromium / linux
      But I would preffer the code font to be slight larger
      than text font (now is the slightly smaller) - the browser
      uses curier new or similar for code
    - firefox / linux
      text and code font seems to be the same size. - the browser uses
      Monospace font for code

5. The page reacts very well to zooming in and out in browser, which is a very good thing

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrei


Hi,

I think fonts are slightly too big and the text maybe spaced too much.
Also, I don't feel you should place the google translate tool on the website as people that need to translate the content can go to google and type the link and get it translated in that way.

Overall the website is ok, but IMHO i think better/cleaner example for a programming language website is this one: http://fantom.org/


~ fil

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:36:43 -0400, bearophile wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu:
> 
>> Time to zero in on the overall design and start working on the content. Please give the design one more round of comments.
> 
> My opinions:
> - The menu on the left is too much wide horizontally - I don't like the
> "window" that limits the text of the right, and I don't like its border
> 
> A small accessibility test: http://i52.tinypic.com/2jetpqg.jpg
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

The words per row count is also a bit too high on a 2560x1600 screen.. I thought there are also Mac users in the crowd.