Improve D1/D2 home page

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Fri Mar 19 10:09:15 PDT 2010


"ZY" <zy at noreply.abc> wrote in message news:ho05ev$3fr$1 at digitalmars.com...
>I recommended my friend who has never used D before to try D2, and give him 
>the link to D2 home page. After a while, he told me he felt uncomfortable 
>with it.
>
> Here is some feedback:
> 1) These links in top-left don't make sense to him.
>    * D ¡ú
>    * Language ¡ú
>    * Phobos ¡ú
> Especailly Phobos, because he doesn't even know what is Phobos. (You can't 
> just let people check all the tooltips)
> Maybe they should be:
>    * D2 Home ¡ú
>    * Specification ¡ú
>    * Library ¡ú
>
> 2) He wants a official tutorial, it's very easy to find this in other 
> language's web site, like:
> http://golang.org/doc/go_tutorial.html
> http://docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/quickstart/
> But he can't find this kind of stuff for D2 or D1
>
> 3) The most visible link in D2 home page is  "Learn to Tango with D". He 
> is confused when I told him Tango doesn't support D2 yet.
> The second link is "The first D Programming Language Conference", it's 
> wired that such an unimportant link is put in this place.
>

Good points. My suggested bikeshed for #1:

* D2 Home
* Language Reference
* Library Reference






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