dlang.org redesign n+2 (the one with the bold red vertical menu)

Mengu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 24 01:32:17 PST 2015


On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 02:43:47 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> Inspired by the recent developments, and Sebastiaan Koppe's 
> version [1] specifically, I gave it a go, too:
>
> http://ag0aep6g-dlang.rhcloud.com/
>
> It's not as radical as other approaches. I didn't start from 
> scratch, but tried to improve on what's there. Almost 
> everything stayed in its place. The only thing that moved 
> significantly is the search box. And I'm not sure about the new 
> spot; may be better to put it above #content again.
>
> I worked mostly on the general appearance, not on the content, 
> not on the navigation hierarchy, not on styling specific pages. 
> I did very minor adjustments to the homepage, though. Like 
> fixing the grammar of the slogan ;) And I stole Sebastiaan's 
> tables, as can be seen on property.html, for example.
>
> I tried to keep all functionality, not cutting things for the 
> sake of looking clean. I did kill two little details though:
> * "D 2.066.1" in the menu -- What's the point of that linking 
> to the home page? Maybe bring it back as "Home".
> * the GitHub ribbon on download.html -- Because I hate it.
>
> The site supposed to scale nicely with window size and font 
> size. E.g., try resizing the window, or pressing Ctrl++ until 
> the layout switches to 'mobile' (go back to default with 
> Ctrl+0).
>
> On that note, I changed the main font size to 1em, period. 
> That's a thing I feel kinda strongly about. It's just the right 
> thing to do (TM) in my opinion.
>
> I have not been a good committer, so there's lots of cleanup to 
> do. But aside from that, this is supposed to mergeable as it is.
>
> Destroy.
>
> [1] 
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/erksyjogigdbhuwpwnzn@forum.dlang.org

it looks better than the current one however when i expand the 
menus, the sub menus opened don't feel like they are a part of 
(ie.) d reference menu or community menu. guess making it clear 
would be better.

one question for everyone: do we really need 3-col web site?


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