D Online Presence

[Walter Bright]

nick wrote:
> The thread "Today the Hobbyist, Tommorow, The World!" seems to have
> drawn a group of people interested in improving the online presence of
> D. I read many reassuring posts and decided to create a new thread
> specifically for the purpose of improving the online presence of D.
> 
> Ideally D's online presence would be centralized. It would be approved
> and supported by Walter. Perhaps what we need is an "official" D site;
> one that would replace http://www.digitalmars.com/d/ (only with Walter's
> blessings, naturally).

What's wrong with www.digitalmars.com/d/ as an official site?

> Walter would have the final say for what happens
> on this site, but the community could provide more content and present
> it well while freeing up Walter's time to work on the language.
> 
> I have made a template layout, and would like to donate it to the D
> cause. I hope I'm not being pretentious when I assume that with a little
> bit of polish, this layout will be good enough to represent D online.
> 
> http://hcoop.net/~natamas/d/template.html (improvements pending)

This shows a lot of promise. A couple nits:

1) is it does not adjust when the window size is changed.

2) it uses javascript to change the look when a mouse is over something, 
can the style sheet 'hover' thing be used instead?

> 
> Walter, what do you think about this?
> 
> 
> Anyone interested in helping, anyone with criticism/suggestions, etc, I
> would like to hear from you.
> 
> Some of the immediate questions that would need to be answered are:
>  - Walter's blessing (after all, we can't be "official" without that)
>  - reliable hosting
>  - new wiki (wiki4d has good content, do we have permission to use it?)
>  - content: wiki content, tutorials for D, library reference; a lot of
> it exists but we need to bring it to one place with permission