Please help me with improving dlang.org

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/17/15 11:42 PM, DaveG wrote:
> On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 04:44:56 UTC, Israel wrote:
>> On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I took the better part of today working on this:
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See
>>> demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
>>>
>>> What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate your help with reviewing and pulling this, and also
>>> with improving the colors (which I'm terrible at) and page tracking
>>> as mentioned in the pull request.
>>>
>
> I'm no designer, but I do have some comments. Without consistency it
> just looks a bunch of parts rather than a singular thing. Some elements
> have gradients, some don't. Some elements have round corners, some
> don't. Elements with borders use different widths, some have none. In
> regards to borders, we engineering types (maybe it's just me) tend to
> put boxes around stuff to represent discrete units when basic design
> concepts, like proximity and contrast, may be better suited for the
> task. I just took a quick pass at it in the browser:
> Original: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/current.png
> Cleanup: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/001.png
> Cleanup w/o bg: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/002.png
>
> Think "consistency and subtlety". Good design generally goes unnoticed.

Looking good. Could you please do a pull request after mine gets in? 
Thanks! -- Andrei