I've had some style updates from David Gileadi rotting in a zip file in my inbox for a good while. It took me the better part of today to manually merge his stale files with the ones in the repository, which have in the meantime undergone many changes.

The result is in http://d-programming-language.org. It has (or at least should have) no new content, only style changes. I added a simple site index, see http://d-programming-language.org/siteindex.html. It's not linked from anywhere but gives a good entry point for all pages on the site.

One other link of possible interest is http://d-programming-language.org/phobos-prerelease/phobos.html which will contain the latest and greatest Phobos committed to github. I've included build targets to synchronize /phobos-prerelease/ and /phobos/. (Right now both contain the prerelease version; don't let that confuse you.)

In agreement with Walter, I removed the Digitalmars reference. The message is simple - D has long become an entity independent from the company that created it. (However, this makes the page header look different and probably less visually appealing.)

Anyway, this all is not done in relation or in response to the recent related activity on redesigning the homepage. I just wanted to make sure that we have a clean basis to start from, and am looking with interest at the coming developments.


Cheers,

Andrei

Andrei Alexandrescu napisał:

> In agreement with Walter, I removed the Digitalmars reference. The message is simple - D has long become an entity independent from the company that created it. (However, this makes the page header look different and probably less visually appealing.)

The header's D should be in red. It's become a bit of a community crest and it fits the color scheme like a glove.

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Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> I've had some style updates from David Gileadi rotting in a zip file in my inbox for a good while. It took me the better part of today to manually merge his stale files with the ones in the repository, which have in the meantime undergone many changes.
> 
> The result is in http://d-programming-language.org. It has (or at least should have) no new content, only style changes. I added a simple site index, see http://d-programming-language.org/siteindex.html. It's not linked from anywhere but gives a good entry point for all pages on the site.
> 
> One other link of possible interest is http://d-programming-language.org/phobos-prerelease/phobos.html which will contain the latest and greatest Phobos committed to github. I've included build targets to synchronize /phobos-prerelease/ and /phobos/. (Right now both contain the prerelease version; don't let that confuse you.)
> 
> In agreement with Walter, I removed the Digitalmars reference. The message is simple - D has long become an entity independent from the company that created it. (However, this makes the page header look different and probably less visually appealing.)
> 
> Anyway, this all is not done in relation or in response to the recent related activity on redesigning the homepage. I just wanted to make sure that we have a clean basis to start from, and am looking with interest at the coming developments.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrei

It looks great. Is it possible to create a github repository specifically for this site? That would help a lot with contributing.

I'll revisit taking a stab at creating good indexes soon, sorry for the delay.

On 01/30/2011 09:03 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> In agreement with Walter, I removed the Digitalmars reference. The message is
> simple - D has long become an entity independent from the company that created
> it. (However, this makes the page header look different and probably less
> visually appealing.)

I think this a very good choice to avoid misleading message about D the language to newcomers. On the other hand, I think it would be fair to place their Logo at the footer, where sponsors or contributors usually are listed.
About the header look & feel, I agree; why not a D logo?

Denis
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:25:20 +0200, Lutger Blijdestijn <lutger.blijdestijn@gmail.com> wrote:

> It looks great. Is it possible to create a github repository specifically
> for this site? That would help a lot with contributing.

I believe one already exists:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org

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Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 16:25:20 +0200, Lutger Blijdestijn <lutger.blijdestijn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> It looks great. Is it possible to create a github repository specifically for this site? That would help a lot with contributing.
> 
> I believe one already exists: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org
> 

o wow, somehow I missed that. That's great!

On 1/30/11 5:03 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> I've had some style updates from David Gileadi rotting in a zip file in
> my inbox for a good while. It took me the better part of today to
> manually merge his stale files with the ones in the repository, which
> have in the meantime undergone many changes.
>
> The result is in http://d-programming-language.org. It has (or at least
> should have) no new content, only style changes. I added a simple site
> index, see http://d-programming-language.org/siteindex.html. It's not
> linked from anywhere but gives a good entry point for all pages on the
> site.

It looks great!!

The only think I don't like is the background image. I mean, I like the background, it just doesn't have to be an image. Each time I go to another page it shows me a white page and then loads everything. It would be much better to use the lastest css gradient feature ( http://robertnyman.com/2010/02/15/css-gradients-for-all-web-browsers-without-using-images/ ). Of course this won't work in IE, but just put a brown background color for IE or put a background image just for IE.

Ary Manzana
> The only think I don't like is the background image. I mean, I like the background, it just doesn't have to be an image. Each time I go to another page it shows me a white page and then loads everything.

That's not the image's fault. The image is cached and background loaded, so the main page never has to wait on it.

The problem is a meta refresh on some of the pages. Meta refresh is evil evil evil and sucks massively. I wish nobody used it. It's completely useless too. And it delays the page load, giving the white we see here.

The right way to do that is with an http redirect, or just pointing the links to the files themselves. (symlink them on the server perhaps if you want both names to work, but I'd just change the link targets in the side to pick one name or the other.)


Kill all meta refreshes with fire!

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:03:08 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:

> I've had some style updates from David Gileadi rotting in a zip file in my inbox for a good while. It took me the better part of today to manually merge his stale files with the ones in the repository, which have in the meantime undergone many changes.

BTW, in perusing the site, I noticed the language reference does not contain a navigation menu.  I can only get to the lexical page, not any other pages of the language reference.

-Steve

On 1/31/11 11:50 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> BTW, in perusing the site, I noticed the language reference does not
> contain a navigation menu. I can only get to the lexical page, not any
> other pages of the language reference.

Andrei e-mailed me about this.  It's due to some Ddoc macros that got lost on some pages, including the lexical page.  I'll take a look at fixing it soon; right now I'm a bit swamped.