<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hey, in general I like what you are doing and I find it an improvement on the current site.</div><div><br></div><div>I quickly looked at your site and I notice the ubuntu logo. I really like their logo and what in represent (people holding hands, community, solidaridarity). Why don't we use something similar for inspiration for D's logo. For D we can use duality and have the two moons of mars represent that duality. For example these are dualities that are first class citizens in D: Functional vs OO, Stack (struct) vs heap (class), message passing (Tid) vs shared memory (shared), runtime polymorphism (inheritance and override) vs compile time (template), etc.</div><div><br></div><div>I am currently unable to create an image for inspiration due to lack of access to a decent computer and lack of skill creating digital images. I'll try to play with the concept and submit some drafts. Maybe the yin-yang symbol can be of inspiration. </div><div><br></div><div>Note: I have noticed that I have an attraction/affinity to circles</div><div><br>Em 04/07/2011, às 07:50, James Fisher <<a href="mailto:jameshfisher@gmail.com">jameshfisher@gmail.com</a>> escreveu:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>A second draft: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://eegg.github.com/d-brand/mockup2.png"><a href="http://eegg.github.com/d-brand/mockup2.png">http://eegg.github.com/d-brand/mockup2.png</a></a><div><br></div><div>Changes:</div><div><br>
</div><div>Swapped out logo for more conservative change.</div><div>Reduction in size of the tabs.</div><div>Search bar.</div><div>Quick-download thing. Would have to use OS/arch detection to be effective.</div><div>Moved code down into page. Could expand.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And important point that's not evident is that I'm designing for variable-width. That image is for 1600px width, but that could shrink.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, James Fisher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jameshfisher@gmail.com"><a href="mailto:jameshfisher@gmail.com">jameshfisher@gmail.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Jonathan M Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmdavisProg@gmx.com" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:jmdavisProg@gmx.com">jmdavisProg@gmx.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Overall, I'd say that I have to agree. I like the current look and feel of d-<br>
<a href="http://programming-language.org" target="_blank"><a href="http://programming-language.org">programming-language.org</a></a>, and I don't see anything wrong with its logo either<br>
(and it looks _way_ better than any of the logos suggested here IMHO). I'm<br>
sure that the site could be improved, but the kind of stuff being discussed in<br>
this thread is incredibly subjective and it doesn't generally seem like much<br>
of an improvement. <a href="http://d-programming-language.org" target="_blank"><a href="http://d-programming-language.org">d-programming-language.org</a></a> is generally a step up from how<br>
<a href="http://www.digitalmars.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.digitalmars.com">www.digitalmars.com</a></a> looks, and the website situation has been improving. So<br>
truth be told, I don't understand this discussion at all. It seems to me like<br>
it's a bikeshedding argument on website and logo design. I'm sure that help on<br>
<a href="http://d-programming-language.org" target="_blank"><a href="http://d-programming-language.org">d-programming-language.org</a></a> would be appreciated, but working on redesigning<br>
the website _again_ seems to me like a waste of time which would be better<br>
spent elsewhere.</blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I'm not sure what gave the impression that the people in this thread want to start again from scratch, but that impression seems to be the source of some hostility. At least in my case, that's *not* what I'm proposing. Pretty much everything here can be categorized as formalizing, cleaning up, or improving work that's already been done.</div>
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