Promoting D projects (or internet marketing 101)

[Tom]

== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound at digitalmars.com)'s article
> Tom wrote:
> > == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound at digitalmars.com)'s article
> >> Do you have a url of a programming site that looks good? (I mean, it's
> >> easier to talk about if given examples of "lights and mirrors" to compare.)
> >
> > Obviously I've exaggerated a little :) about all the "lights and mirrors" stuff. I
> > wasn't literally talking of course, was just saying.
> >
> > But well, Bill gave us a nice example of (IMO) a nice looking web page:
> >
> > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
> To be frank, I don't like that page, I think the graphic designer was
> more interested in making it look pretty than be usable. For example:
> 1) Blue text on a black background is a no-no, it's very difficult to read.
> 2) It's a fixed width layout. Let the user decide his browser window size.
> 3) I don't like the navigation on the right - that's the normal place
> for advertisements and my eye just wants to ignore it.
> 4) The fonts are too small (a problem that rears its ugly head when one
> gets a little older!)
> 5) The site jarringly switches to look like: http://www.rubygarden.org/faq/
> 6) The search box is faded out, I missed it the first couple times I
> looked for it.
> I do like the ruby logo, though. Nice!

I agree but we don't need to copy all those defects, and yet we can imitate all
the good design choices. Luckily we are free to improve over the "mistakes" of
other people ;D