[dlang.org] getting the redesign wrapped up

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d]

My implementation of the redesign is pretty much complete.

Check it out: http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/

This is an implementation of a design done by one Ivan Smirnov, brought 
forward by Jacob Carlborg [1].

The dark forum widgets on the home page are in iframes. Their styling 
will need to be updated at the source, which is forum.dlang.org.

Another external dependency is the This Week in D script. Adam, it would 
be nice if the `setTwid` function could take the date separately. That 
would allow me to word the text without having "This Week in D" there twice.

Other than those two little things I consider this done. From my side it 
could be merged immediately.

But I'm sure there are a thousand things wrong with this. Here are some 
topics to get you started:

1) Legalities

I mentioned this before, but noone reacted. Can we use Ivan's work? Do 
we have his ok? Do we need it? Jacob mentioned that he can't in contact 
with him anymore. Is that a problem?

2) Reviewing the code

https://github.com/aG0aep6G/dlang.org/commits/Ivan-Smirnov's-redesign

This is just one giant commit (the others are independent minor fixes). 
GitHub refuses to show the diff for the style.css file, because it's too 
big. Is this acceptable, or do I need to split it up somehow? If I need 
to split it up, any advice on how to do that?

3) New Pages

Aside from the overall style changes and menu reorganization, I also 
added overview pages for the articles and for the tools:

http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/articles.html
http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/tools.html

They feature new text that should be proofread.

4) Fonts

Vladimir Panteleev has spoken out against web fonts [2]. His argument is 
that they can look fine on one system but bad on another. Indeed the 
recently changed code font on dlang.org looks pretty bad for me while 
the default 'monospace' looks just fine, which is why I reverted that in 
the redesign.

The redesign uses a web font for its main font, though: Roboto Slab. It 
looks good for me, but I'm not able to test it on a large variety of 
device/OS/browser combinations. Maybe it's fine, or maybe we should stay 
away from web fonts categorically. I don't really have an opinion on this.

5) Justified Text

Andrei loves it, everybody else hates it. I killed it as the mockup 
didn't have it. Is that ok, or is justified text a must?

6) Red For Clickables Only?

Currently, the site uses red almost exclusively for clickable stuff. But 
it's also used as a highlight color for non-clickable things. For 
example in phobos signatures:

http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/phobos/object.html#.Object

The left borders of the signature boxes are red, and the documented 
symbol is highlighted with red.

Red does not signal clickability here. I don't like that and I'd prefer 
to go with another color for generic highlighting, reserving red for 
clickable stuff.

7) The Logo

As requested by Andrei, this does not feature a logo change for now. I'm 
going to make a pull request for the slicker logo variant [3] when this 
is through.


[1] http://forum.dlang.org/post/n53ps0$2j8f$1@digitalmars.com
[2] http://forum.dlang.org/post/xezfeilxblfkibldvsgg@forum.dlang.org
[3] https://gist.github.com/aG0aep6G/0803ec5ae49f6afb0196