Promoting D projects (or internet marketing 101)

[Walter Bright]

Tom wrote:
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound at digitalmars.com)'s article
>> Do you have a url of a programming site that looks good? (I mean, it's
>> easier to talk about if given examples of "lights and mirrors" to compare.)
> 
> Obviously I've exaggerated a little :) about all the "lights and mirrors" stuff. I
> wasn't literally talking of course, was just saying.
> 
> But well, Bill gave us a nice example of (IMO) a nice looking web page:
> 
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

To be frank, I don't like that page, I think the graphic designer was 
more interested in making it look pretty than be usable. For example:

1) Blue text on a black background is a no-no, it's very difficult to read.

2) It's a fixed width layout. Let the user decide his browser window size.

3) I don't like the navigation on the right - that's the normal place 
for advertisements and my eye just wants to ignore it.

4) The fonts are too small (a problem that rears its ugly head when one 
gets a little older!)

5) The site jarringly switches to look like: http://www.rubygarden.org/faq/

6) The search box is faded out, I missed it the first couple times I 
looked for it.

I do like the ruby logo, though. Nice!