I took the better part of today working on this: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See demo at http://erdani.com/d/.

What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?

I'd appreciate your help with reviewing and pulling this, and also with improving the colors (which I'm terrible at) and page tracking as mentioned in the pull request.


Thanks,

Andrei

On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> What do you all think?

colors feel very geocities-like :)
I'm not a designer so I couldn't give any color tips, but I like the functionality of the new design.

On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:18:17 -0800
Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>
wrote:

> I took the better part of today working on this: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
> 
> What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?
> 
> I'd appreciate your help with reviewing and pulling this, and also with improving the colors (which I'm terrible at) and page tracking as mentioned in the pull request.
as you wrote "What do you all think?", i will tell you my impressions too.

somehow it's not looking better at all. the new sidebar is looking like... like something that's alien to the site. it's very contrast, which distracts from the main container, and screams: "read me! read me! I TOLD YOU TO READ ME!"

old sidebar was almost unnoticable, which is good for supporting site element. but new one looks like it's one of the main things on the site, maybe even the most important one. it's white background sends a signal "i'm The Content!"

but maybe i'm just too old for today's modern sites. for me, most of them are designed for anything but presenting me the actual content and just get out of my way while i'm reading. i was never able to understand why current D site considered "old-fashioned" in the meaning of "being old-fashioned is bad".

thank you for reading this old man's rant.

On 1/17/15 6:30 PM, weaselcat wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> What do you all think?
>
> colors feel very geocities-like :)
> I'm not a designer so I couldn't give any color tips, but I like the
> functionality of the new design.

Thanks! Yah, that coral-red is a bit sudden. I want something more subdued, Mars soil-like. -- Andrei

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 06:18:17PM -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I took the better part of today working on this: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
> 
> What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?

Yes!


> I'd appreciate your help with reviewing and pulling this, and also with improving the colors (which I'm terrible at) and page tracking as mentioned in the pull request.
[...]

Too busy with std.algorithm, sorry. I managed to split it into 5 parts, but having some trouble with some circular dependencies that's causing std.algorithm.mutation to not work properly... but this belongs in a different discussion.


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-- 
Once the bikeshed is up for painting, the rainbow won't suffice. -- Andrei Alexandrescu

On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I took the better part of today working on this: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
>
> What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?

Nice but I changed a bit, so what do you think about this: http://i.imgur.com/AIvcoWl.png

?

Matheus.

On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I took the better part of today working on this: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
>
> What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?
>
> I'd appreciate your help with reviewing and pulling this, and also with improving the colors (which I'm terrible at) and page tracking as mentioned in the pull request.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

The layout looks pretty bad on a mobile device.... you kind of expect it to be properly responsive these days. That might be one thing to get fixed.

On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:55:40 UTC, MattCoder wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> I took the better part of today working on this: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
>>
>> What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?
>
> Nice but I changed a bit, so what do you think about this: http://i.imgur.com/AIvcoWl.png
>
> ?
>
> Matheus.

IMO this looks much better.

On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I took the better part of today working on this: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
>
> What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?
>
> I'd appreciate your help with reviewing and pulling this, and also with improving the colors (which I'm terrible at) and page tracking as mentioned in the pull request.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

While I like the idea of it, and the new menus in general, those gradients are honestly really not nice. Very demanding and looks rather out of place.

Something like plain grey or black would be better, not a gradient and not something so pop-out like that red.

On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I took the better part of today working on this: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
>
> What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?
>
> I'd appreciate your help with reviewing and pulling this, and also with improving the colors (which I'm terrible at) and page tracking as mentioned in the pull request.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

Too much code, I know its what you want people to see but if the entire length of the website consists of giant blocks of code it just doesnt look as pleasing to the eyes...

put all of that code and introduction to D into a subpage called "About"/"Intro to D". have it be the first subpage on the left column.

The front page should be updated with new content like your tweets, forum posts, articles from other websites,reddit, etc.

maybe under the documentation put a "Getting started" Tutorial?