On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org" target="_blank">SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 7/3/11 7:15 AM, James Fisher wrote:<br>
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On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jacob Carlborg <<a href="mailto:doob@me.com" target="_blank">doob@me.com</a><div><br>
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On 2011-07-02 23:01, James Fisher wrote:<br>
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So, here's a website mockup:<br></div>
<a href="http://eegg.github.com/d-__brand/mockup.png" target="_blank">http://eegg.github.com/d-__<u></u>brand/mockup.png</a><div><br>
<<a href="http://eegg.github.com/d-brand/mockup.png" target="_blank">http://eegg.github.com/d-<u></u>brand/mockup.png</a>><br>
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In general I like it. I think the top tabs are a little too big. You<br>
could cut the height in half I think, it's wasting a too much<br>
vertical space. You can easily cut off 30px above and below the text<br>
in the tabs.<br>
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That is true, though I do have a few reasons for keeping 'em big:<br>
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- I think the composition works better with it being a half or a third<br>
of the height of the sand-color banner.<br>
- potentially, a second layer of links could be introduced. (Though in<br>
general I shy away from multi-level top-level links as over-engineered,<br>
unless the site is really complex, which it's not.)<br>
- on other pages, e.g. the docs, I'm considering having the logo in the<br>
dark banner (at the same x-pos). This would require some space.<br>
- last but not least, it's the web, not paper, and we have all the space<br>
we want for free!<br>
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I would be nice to see a mouckup of one page from the language<br>
reference and one from the library reference, for example:<br>
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<a href="http://d-programming-language." target="_blank">http://d-programming-language.</a><u></u>__org/lex.html<br>
<<a href="http://d-programming-language.org/lex.html" target="_blank">http://d-programming-<u></u>language.org/lex.html</a>><br>
<a href="http://d-programming-language." target="_blank">http://d-programming-language.</a><u></u>__org/phobos/std_string.html<div><br>
<<a href="http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_string.html" target="_blank">http://d-programming-<u></u>language.org/phobos/std_<u></u>string.html</a>><br>
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I'll come up with those when I stop playing around with Inkscape, and<br>
mock up in HTML/CSS.<br>
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One thing that's going somewhat unnoticed in this discussion is that the site is at the end of a major redesign cycle during which people in this group gave extensive input on the logo, the color scheme, the fonts, the page design - pretty much all aspects of the website. I find it surprising that all that is now as if it never existed.<br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br><div>Yep, the previous discussion was very helpful in that it shaped the current site.</div><div>I don't believe that appreciating this discussion makes us discredit that earlier discussion. In a healthy open-source project, all kinds of efforts from the community continually drive to improve the project as a whole.</div>