On 02/09/10 09:46, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> 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.
>
I'm afraid I really like the red flare; it makes the website look more visually appealing. A solid background colour would just look blander.

However, I agree with the comments about the c1.gif and d3.gif images. They don't really fit with the more professional looking new design.

PS: Google Chrome on a 1680x1050 resolution display.
> I'm afraid I really like the red flare; it makes the website look more
> visually appealing. A solid background colour would just look blander.
>
> However, I agree with the comments about the c1.gif and d3.gif images.
> They don't really fit with the more professional looking new design.

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:31:03 +0100, Gareth Charnock wrote:

> PS: Google Chrome on a 1680x1050 resolution display.
>> I'm afraid I really like the red flare; it makes the website look more visually appealing. A solid background colour would just look blander.
>>
>> However, I agree with the comments about the c1.gif and d3.gif images. They don't really fit with the more professional looking new design.

We need a more professional looking SVG version of the D man then!

Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> писал(а) в своём письме Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:03:33 +0700:

> 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

1. There should be "Contibute" section on the site with subsections {Compiler, Phobos,
   Documentation, This site}
2. On overview page:
      - Absence of C++ code highlighting looks like cheating from brainwash TV ads
      - (not sure) maybe functional langs and FP style also should be mentioned ?

3. D-lang.org is faster to type and memorize (especially for non-native speakers). Is it owned
   by someone from D community ? We should make it to forward to main site (the same for
   dlang.org)
4. Agree with Jonathan, code font seems (can I say so) a little too big
5. I would like to be able to view contents of categories like "Language Reference" without
   opening first (maybe like "+" on the MSDN site)
6. Why do we need "Digital Mars" to be mentioned ? I think it can mislead people to conclusion,
   that D is owned by some corporation.

7. "Documentation"->"Library Reference" link is broken

P.S. I like red flare :)

-- 
Alexander

On 09/02/2010 02:50 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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.

My website (www.erdani.com) uses an automatic hyphenator written in Javascript by Mathias Nater. Hyphenation improves the looks of justified text a lot. Walter wasn't keen about adding the hyphenator because it causes a flicker after loading.

Andrei

Is this site going to replace the D2 pages on digitalmars.com? E.g.: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/index.html

In any case, I'm fine with the design.. well except that red flare which I'll never understand. Luckily I can just adblock an image and the site looks nice then. :p

But we might as well fix up the language documentation while we're at it. I've reported everything erroneous I've found in the language spec and there's a list of the links to the bug reports here:

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4777#c1

Some of these are probably a mistake in my interpretation, of course. I did provide some necessary steps to fix many of these issues. Steven Schveighoffer was kind enough to fix the arrays page, but there are many more left.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:03 AM, 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
>

On http://d-programming-language.org/memory-safe-d.html, the menu sidebar (which is a bit on the long side for the language reference in my mind) extends below the footer, which looks awkward.

Also, I personally think that the logo header in its current state is plain ugly – maybe making the font larger and putting the DigitalMars logo to the right side of it would be an idea?

I definitely agree--the Digital Mars logo shouldn't be so prominent. Also that clicking it takes you to digitalmars.com is weird--a user will definitely expect to be taken back to / instead.

As for thoughts on a logo itself, just something simple with a unique font like the one at http://python.org/ would be fine.

klickverbot wrote:
> On http://d-programming-language.org/memory-safe-d.html, the menu sidebar (which is a bit on the long side for the language reference in my mind) extends below the footer, which looks awkward.
> 
> Also, I personally think that the logo header in its current state is plain ugly – maybe making the font larger and putting the DigitalMars logo to the right side of it would be an idea?

"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.

One other nagging little issue: There's a little bit too much space between the lines of text within a paragraph. It'd be easier to read if that was tightned up a little.

"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.

Another thing: At the bottom of the left-nav column it says "Translate this page:", but then there's nothing there. Kinda weird.