Redesign of dlang.org

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 31 May 2014 at 20:01:50 UTC, Dylan Knutson wrote:
> Firstly, wow, the site looks beautiful. It has an air of 
> professionality to it, but stays minimal and to the point. I 
> think it'd be best if there was a code example above the fold 
> though (e.g. how basically every programming language website 
> does it nowadays), such as the word length snippet on the index 
> of dlang.org as of now.

Yeah, that's why I was mentioning something about hosting drepl 
on the site. One of the first things you see should be D code you 
can run from your browser.

>
> Maybe it'd be good to have something about CTFE/more on 
> templates in the "Convenience" or "Power" section, as that has 
> gotten much more useful in the language the past year or two. 
> Also, I assume a good amount of work has to be done porting the 
> rest of the site over (the community and documentation sections 
> don't seem to be implemented).

I just copied the text from the current website for now. I'm not 
a great copy writer myself. Someone else could surely do a better 
job of that.

>
> Again, fantastic job :) it's great to see people taking 
> initiative. Hopefully dlang.org can get a facelift in the near 
> future. I'd be happy to spend some time working on porting more 
> of the site if it gets a "green light" from upper management to 
> be a replacement.

Cool. I'll glady copy a bunch of pages into diet templates or 
whatever myself. I kind of need to do some of that anyway to make 
sure everything fits on the page as it should.