dlang.org redesign n+1

[Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 16:22:08 UTC, aldanor wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 15:35:59 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 14:46:22 UTC, Sebastiaan 
>> Koppe wrote:
>>> Just for fun and proof-of-concept I went ahead and forked the 
>>> dlang.org site. I basically took the 
>>> `do-what-everybody-else-is-doing` approach:
>>>
>>> http://dlang.skoppe.eu
>>>
>>> It is still a wip, but the landing page and the language 
>>> reference (see Docs menu-item) is working.
>>>
>>> Doing the ddoc was a maze of macro's at first. But spending a 
>>> couple of hours untangling the mess, I finally found the ones 
>>> I needed to change. After that things went pretty smooth. So 
>>> ddoc ain't that bad. It is just that I didn't have syntax 
>>> highlighting - nor goto-definition - and I hate that.
>>>
>>> Still, it is cool in a way that I can just change some 
>>> macro's, tweak the index.dd, the doc.ddoc and don't have to 
>>> worry about all the other pages.
>>>
>>> BTW, the build process on windows was way easier than linux. 
>>> In fact, I could not get the makefile to run on linux at all. 
>>> Looking into posix.mak, I see a blur of path's, all 
>>> misconfigured, and I bet I am supposed to set those manually. 
>>> I don't get it, doesn't everything has its own place? Isn't 
>>> dmd always installed in /usr/bin, /usr/include/dmd and that 
>>> stuff? I suppose not everyone is using the same distro. Or 
>>> they are, except me :)
>>
>> Good start. A few points:
>>
>> 1. The font is too big (see also 2.).
>> 2. A lot of space is wasted. To fix this, maybe it would help 
>> to lay it out in "tiles" (two or three items in one row, cf 
>> http://foundation.zurb.com/).
>> As it is now, the three major points Convenience, Power and 
>> Efficiency are too far apart, there's too much scrolling 
>> involved (which users hate). All the important information 
>> should be visible at once.
>> 3. No need to use so much space for "The D Programming 
>> Language", especially since we don't have a fancy graphic to 
>> fill that space (why should we).
>> 4. Tools like DUB etc. should be bundled as on the Foundation 
>> homepage under something like "Build products, apps and 
>> services"
>
> Good work in the right direction!.. and now for some 
> bikeshedding:
>
> Agreed with Chris on (1), (2), (3), plus:
> (4) Not mobile-ready / not responsive. Try resizing 
> horizontally and see what happens. This is related to (2) and 
> could be solved by using a proper grid framework.
> (5) Use a better sans serif font (with a fallback to browser 
> default sans family), it actually matters a lot :) Like Fira 
> Sans, Helvetica Neue or something like that. Could use a better 
> monospaced font as well
> (6) Hover-on/-off effects (like in the menu above) are usually 
> frowned upon since they won't work on mobile devices as you 
> expect. It's sometimes better to just have plain properly 
> styled links.
> (7) The search bar seems misplaced

I am using a grid framework (purecss). And I resize all the time. 
What browser are you using?

Suggestions for the fonts are welcome. I just took the default 
and never looked back.