On 1/31/11 12:50 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 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

Thanks, David and me are looking into that.

Andrei

On 30/01/2011 08:03, 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


I gave a few comments on this some time ago, I'm not sure if they were seen (the post was way after the thread creation). It regards the search button and functionality, it goes like this:


The search section looks fugly, IMO. The text&button itself is not bad, but the dropdown is ugly, and not just on aspect, but also functionality. I'm surprised no else commented likewise. :(

My suggestion is to remove the drop-down altogether. Let the more refined search scope options be available elsewhere, perhaps on the search results page itself. Also, we should use Google Custom Search. Just linking to raw google looks amateurish. That's because (amongst other things) the search page shows up with all the Google personalized homepage stuff (if you enable it for google.com). Compare: http://oi55.tinypic.com/350mmxc.jpg
to:
http://www.google.com/cse?q=foobar&cx=013598269713424429640%3Ag5orptiw95w&ie=UTF-8&sa=Search

Here's an example of what I'm suggesting for the search functionality, try it out:
http://svn.dsource.org/projects/descent/downloads/temp/dwebpage.htm
(obviously the layout and colors are broken, I just want to demo the functionality, especially using Google Custom Search. Also please try it *with Firefox*, with Chrome it's broken)

An alternative is to maintain the current behavior: and have the search page be presented on its own, instead of contained the D programming language site:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=016833344392370455076%3Afjy38cei55c&ie=UTF-8&q=foobar&sa=Search
However I don't know how to customize the CSS for this hosted page, plus, when you click the scope labels, the search query changes: you get an annoying extra "more:library_reference" keyword one it. Meh.

Yet another alternative is to put the search text&button as a section in the navigation leftbar, and put the three search scopes as 3 radio buttion options, each on their own line... but please, no dropdown on a header! :S


-- 
Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer

Can the D logo (as in the github site: https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1fe90c0586802aee103ff9ac0b8f3fbe?s=140&d=https://github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png) located on the left top area where the digital mars logo used to sit? the empty space looks a little strange.

-b

On 2011-01-30 03:03:08 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu said:

> 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

Gölgeliyele wrote:
> Can the D logo (as in the github site: https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/1fe90c0586802aee103ff9ac0b8f3fbe?s=140&d=https://github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png) located on the left top area where the digital mars logo used to sit? the empty space looks a little strange.

I agree it should use the D logo.