[website redesign] PR for the one with the big red menu bar

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 17:29:05 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> The right-side panel is WAY too prominent. It takes nearly an 
> entire third of the horizontal space, leaving the main content 
> much to squished.

Yeah, I'd forgotten to update the max-widths.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/886

> The upper part of the left-side panel has far too much wasted 
> vertical space. The main links don't even start until almost 
> halfway down the first "screen" (ie, before you start 
> scrolling).

One thing I thought of is putting the search box below the menu 
links. The downside would be, that it's harder to find when a 
foldable section is expanded.

> Also, the search box suffers from invisible text syndrome. I 
> think you set its background color to white while forgetting to 
> set the foreground text color. CSS and UI designers tend to 
> forget that not everyone uses a "dark-on-light" system color 
> scheme. (for some of us, "dark-on-light" hurts our eyes)

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/887