Improve D1/D2 home page

Robert Clipsham robert at octarineparrot.com
Sat Mar 20 09:35:03 PDT 2010


On 19/03/10 15:32, ZY wrote:
> 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.

In reply to your first point, I think there needs to be a link in that 
same column to the download page for dmd, I always have to type in the 
url to the change log manually because I can never remember how to 
navigate to the page...




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