D brand identity repository

[Jimmy Cao]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <
SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 7/3/11 7:15 AM, James Fisher wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com
>>
>> <mailto:doob at me.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 2011-07-02 23:01, James Fisher wrote:
>>
>>        So, here's a website mockup:
>>        http://eegg.github.com/d-__**brand/mockup.png<http://eegg.github.com/d-__brand/mockup.png>
>>
>>        <http://eegg.github.com/d-**brand/mockup.png<http://eegg.github.com/d-brand/mockup.png>
>> >
>>
>>        Comments appreciated.
>>
>>
>>    In general I like it. I think the top tabs are a little too big. You
>>    could cut the height in half I think, it's wasting a too much
>>    vertical space. You can easily cut off 30px above and below the text
>>    in the tabs.
>>
>>
>> That is true, though I do have a few reasons for keeping 'em big:
>>
>> - I think the composition works better with it being a half or a third
>> of the height of the sand-color banner.
>> - potentially, a second layer of links could be introduced.  (Though in
>> general I shy away from multi-level top-level links as over-engineered,
>> unless the site is really complex, which it's not.)
>> - on other pages, e.g. the docs, I'm considering having the logo in the
>> dark banner (at the same x-pos).  This would require some space.
>> - last but not least, it's the web, not paper, and we have all the space
>> we want for free!
>>
>>    I would be nice to see a mouckup of one page from the language
>>    reference and one from the library reference, for example:
>>
>>    http://d-programming-language.**__org/lex.html
>>    <http://d-programming-**language.org/lex.html<http://d-programming-language.org/lex.html>
>> >
>>    http://d-programming-language.**__org/phobos/std_string.html
>>
>>    <http://d-programming-**language.org/phobos/std_**string.html<http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_string.html>
>> >
>>
>>
>> I'll come up with those when I stop playing around with Inkscape, and
>> mock up in HTML/CSS.
>>
>
> One thing that's going somewhat unnoticed in this discussion is that the
> site is at the end of a major redesign cycle during which people in this
> group gave extensive input on the logo, the color scheme, the fonts, the
> page design - pretty much all aspects of the website. I find it surprising
> that all that is now as if it never existed.
>
>
> Andrei
>

Yep, the previous discussion was very helpful in that it shaped the current
site.
I don't believe that appreciating this discussion makes us discredit that
earlier discussion.  In a healthy open-source project, all kinds of efforts
from the community continually drive to improve the project as a whole.
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