On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 07:40:03 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
> On 01/07/2014 7:42 AM, w0rp wrote:
>
>> The logo on the site I'm testing is the most effective duck.
>>
>> The logo is a placeholder I made with no graphic design experience. The
>> old logo is a bit too fat and round to fit with the new design, so I'd
>> like something which is obviously still the same brand, but looks a bit
>> flatter.
>
> I just found out why your logo looks terrible on my machine, you are using a web font in the SVG that FF isn't finding and there is no fallback specified so I'm getting a D in Times New Roman ><
>
> A quick solution would be to convert the glyph to curves ("Object to Path" on the "Path" menu in Inkscape), then you will know that everyone is seeing the same thing.
>
> A...

Ah, I didn't realise the SVG was loading a font for that, I
suppose it make perfect sense. Again, no graphic design
experience.

Generally for the logo, I'm looking for someone who does know
what they are doing with Inkscape or similar tools to produce
something which fits instead.

On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:38:39 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 07:40:03 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
>> On 01/07/2014 7:42 AM, w0rp wrote:
>>
>>> The logo on the site I'm testing is the most effective duck.
>>>
>>> The logo is a placeholder I made with no graphic design experience. The
>>> old logo is a bit too fat and round to fit with the new design, so I'd
>>> like something which is obviously still the same brand, but looks a bit
>>> flatter.
>>
>> I just found out why your logo looks terrible on my machine, you are using a web font in the SVG that FF isn't finding and there is no fallback specified so I'm getting a D in Times New Roman ><
>>
>> A quick solution would be to convert the glyph to curves ("Object to Path" on the "Path" menu in Inkscape), then you will know that everyone is seeing the same thing.
>>
>> A...
>
> Ah, I didn't realise the SVG was loading a font for that, I
> suppose it make perfect sense. Again, no graphic design
> experience.
>
> Generally for the logo, I'm looking for someone who does know
> what they are doing with Inkscape or similar tools to produce
> something which fits instead.

I'll fix that in the interim by converting the font into a shape instead.

On 1 July 2014 13:40, w0rp via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:38:39 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 07:40:03 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/07/2014 7:42 AM, w0rp wrote:
>>>
>>>> The logo on the site I'm testing is the most effective duck.
>>>>
>>>> The logo is a placeholder I made with no graphic design experience. The old logo is a bit too fat and round to fit with the new design, so I'd like something which is obviously still the same brand, but looks a bit flatter.
>>>
>>>
>>> I just found out why your logo looks terrible on my machine, you are using a web font in the SVG that FF isn't finding and there is no fallback specified so I'm getting a D in Times New Roman ><
>>>
>>> A quick solution would be to convert the glyph to curves ("Object to Path" on the "Path" menu in Inkscape), then you will know that everyone is seeing the same thing.
>>>
>>> A...
>>
>>
>> Ah, I didn't realise the SVG was loading a font for that, I suppose it make perfect sense. Again, no graphic design experience.
>>
>> Generally for the logo, I'm looking for someone who does know what they are doing with Inkscape or similar tools to produce something which fits instead.
>
>
> I'll fix that in the interim by converting the font into a shape instead.


By the way, did you get round to implementing some sort of generic watch routine?

I've bashed together a small generic FAM - could clean it up and send it to the vibe.d guys to fix up and make it better.

Regards
Iain

On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:04:04 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been D enthusiast for couple of years now (but I do not participate much in discussions here, although I read forums almost daily), and I keep telling people about D and how awesome it is.
>
> But, all this time D's official website somehow archaic look kept troubling me. It reminds me of early 2000's design and I really cannot associate this design with "modern" or "elegant", what D really is.
> I think that we must invest time and energy improving the website's look and feel as that is what people first coming to D will see. We need to strive for "wow" and not "meh" as a first impression.
>
> So I have started this thread to see if there is a chance for complete redesign of dlang.org.
>
> I have also tried to design something myself (although I'm not a designer) and this is what I came up with:
>
> http://krcko.net/dlang.org/dlang-home-draft1.png
>
> I'm not entirely satisfied with it but I believe that it looks better (or at least more modern) than the current design.
>
>
> So, what do you guys think?
>
>
>
>
> -- Aleksandar

Looks pretty well. What I don't like is dark background for section of code. I prefer reading text on light background. But tastes differ! For example OS console on Windows or Linux is usually has dark background.

On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:40:21 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:38:39 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 07:40:03 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
>>> On 01/07/2014 7:42 AM, w0rp wrote:
>>>
>>>> The logo on the site I'm testing is the most effective duck.
>>>>
>>>> The logo is a placeholder I made with no graphic design experience. The
>>>> old logo is a bit too fat and round to fit with the new design, so I'd
>>>> like something which is obviously still the same brand, but looks a bit
>>>> flatter.
>>>
>>> I just found out why your logo looks terrible on my machine, you are using a web font in the SVG that FF isn't finding and there is no fallback specified so I'm getting a D in Times New Roman ><
>>>
>>> A quick solution would be to convert the glyph to curves ("Object to Path" on the "Path" menu in Inkscape), then you will know that everyone is seeing the same thing.
>>>
>>> A...
>>
>> Ah, I didn't realise the SVG was loading a font for that, I
>> suppose it make perfect sense. Again, no graphic design
>> experience.
>>
>> Generally for the logo, I'm looking for someone who does know
>> what they are doing with Inkscape or similar tools to produce
>> something which fits instead.
>
> I'll fix that in the interim by converting the font into a shape instead.

I did that a couple years ago: http://goo.gl/trMh6k

On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 08:34:30 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Monday, 30 June 2014 at 21:23:59 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
>> My opinion is that the redesign preserves the spirit of the current logo while fitting in well with the flatter look. I think someone who sees the one logo will recognize the other in it (unlike some of the recent proposed logos).
>
> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 06:42:49 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>> The logo is a placeholder I made with no graphic design experience. The old logo is a bit too fat and round to fit with the new design, so I'd like something which is obviously still the same brand, but looks a bit flatter.
>
> No! You must use the original D logo, this is not up for debate. I will fight this until the end. You cannot mess about with the brand! We must start to approach these things in a professional and respectful manner.
>
> The original D logo (and colours) must be used.

The copyright of the original isn't owned by Walter. I think it'd be best if we moved away from it. I like the flatter, cleaner logo.

On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 14:23:00 UTC, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> By the way, did you get round to implementing some sort of generic
> watch routine?
>
> I've bashed together a small generic FAM - could clean it up and send
> it to the vibe.d guys to fix up and make it better.
>
> Regards
> Iain

I did not. We are defintely writing very similar things, so if you've got something already that does the job feel free to add it in with a pull request or push it up to vibe.d so everyone can benefit from it. I'm focused on getting more of the existing site copied across and a bunch of style things at the moment.

Am 01.07.2014 16:22, schrieb Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d:
> On 1 July 2014 13:40, w0rp via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:38:39 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 07:40:03 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01/07/2014 7:42 AM, w0rp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The logo on the site I'm testing is the most effective duck.
>>>>>
>>>>> The logo is a placeholder I made with no graphic design experience. The
>>>>> old logo is a bit too fat and round to fit with the new design, so I'd
>>>>> like something which is obviously still the same brand, but looks a bit
>>>>> flatter.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I just found out why your logo looks terrible on my machine, you are
>>>> using a web font in the SVG that FF isn't finding and there is no fallback
>>>> specified so I'm getting a D in Times New Roman ><
>>>>
>>>> A quick solution would be to convert the glyph to curves ("Object to
>>>> Path" on the "Path" menu in Inkscape), then you will know that everyone is
>>>> seeing the same thing.
>>>>
>>>> A...
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, I didn't realise the SVG was loading a font for that, I
>>> suppose it make perfect sense. Again, no graphic design
>>> experience.
>>>
>>> Generally for the logo, I'm looking for someone who does know
>>> what they are doing with Inkscape or similar tools to produce
>>> something which fits instead.
>>
>>
>> I'll fix that in the interim by converting the font into a shape instead.
>
>
> By the way, did you get round to implementing some sort of generic
> watch routine?
>
> I've bashed together a small generic FAM - could clean it up and send
> it to the vibe.d guys to fix up and make it better.
>
> Regards
> Iain
>

If it works with libevent and could be fit into this API:

http://vibed.org/api/vibe.core.driver/EventDriver.watchDirectory
http://vibed.org/api/vibe.core.file/DirectoryWatcher

then that would be great! Live reloading is definitely a pretty big deal, but I've always been overloaded with work on more fundamental issues so far.

BTW, for the special case of Diet templates there is also this ticket:
https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/issues/676

On 01/07/2014 6:08 PM, Brad Anderson wrote:
 The original D logo (and colours) must be used.
>
> The copyright of the original isn't owned by Walter. I think it'd be
> best if we moved away from it. I like the flatter, cleaner logo.

Should anyone ever deem one of my designs worthy, I'd be happy to sign over the copyright to Walter.

A...

On 1 July 2014 20:05, Sönke Ludwig <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Am 01.07.2014 16:22, schrieb Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d:
>>
>> On 1 July 2014 13:40, w0rp via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:38:39 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 07:40:03 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/07/2014 7:42 AM, w0rp wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The logo on the site I'm testing is the most effective duck.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The logo is a placeholder I made with no graphic design experience.
>>>>>> The
>>>>>> old logo is a bit too fat and round to fit with the new design, so I'd
>>>>>> like something which is obviously still the same brand, but looks a
>>>>>> bit
>>>>>> flatter.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just found out why your logo looks terrible on my machine, you are
>>>>> using a web font in the SVG that FF isn't finding and there is no
>>>>> fallback
>>>>> specified so I'm getting a D in Times New Roman ><
>>>>>
>>>>> A quick solution would be to convert the glyph to curves ("Object to
>>>>> Path" on the "Path" menu in Inkscape), then you will know that everyone
>>>>> is
>>>>> seeing the same thing.
>>>>>
>>>>> A...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah, I didn't realise the SVG was loading a font for that, I suppose it make perfect sense. Again, no graphic design experience.
>>>>
>>>> Generally for the logo, I'm looking for someone who does know what they are doing with Inkscape or similar tools to produce something which fits instead.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I'll fix that in the interim by converting the font into a shape instead.
>>
>>
>>
>> By the way, did you get round to implementing some sort of generic watch routine?
>>
>> I've bashed together a small generic FAM - could clean it up and send it to the vibe.d guys to fix up and make it better.
>>
>> Regards
>> Iain
>>
>
> If it works with libevent and could be fit into this API:
>
> http://vibed.org/api/vibe.core.driver/EventDriver.watchDirectory http://vibed.org/api/vibe.core.file/DirectoryWatcher
>
> then that would be great! Live reloading is definitely a pretty big deal, but I've always been overloaded with work on more fundamental issues so far.
>

It doesn't use libevent... yet.  As I said, its bashed together so pretty much works as a separate thread running in a while(true) { ... sleep(x); } loop that re-compiles markdown files in the background.

For the moment on my own staging site, I've just loaded in Redis as a memserver with a brief expiry time.

Wouldn't want to steal the limelight, but I'm over here:

http://staging.dgnu.org

Regards
Iain