D web site facelift

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
news:i0mi47$mhi$1 at digitalmars.com...
> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
> news:i0m1qa$2vad$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> David Gileadi was kind enough to spend some time redesigning the look of 
>> the D web site. A preview of it is up on d-programming-language.org. This 
>> isn't about the content, just the look/style/feel.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>>
>> Please don't put links to anything other than the front page yet, as the 
>> organization may change.
>
> Oooohh, pretty :)
>
> A few notes:
>
> Text size is the absolute biggest it can get without it being 
> "too-fucking-big". Personally, I'd even bring it down one notch, but as-is 
> is acceptable. *Definitely* do *NOT* go any bigger, though (this isn't 
> Fisher-Price Publishing).
>
> The red glow is very nice, but I agree with the others that it decreases 
> the contrast too much and makes it hard to read or look at. In fact, even 
> without the red glow, the menu doesn't have enough contrast and it hurts 
> my eyes.
>
> The text-color in the search box needs to be set to black, not 
> system-default. It's nearly-invisible for me on all the browsers I tried: 
> IE7, FF2 and Iron (it's like Chrome, except with changes that make me 
> allow it to actually touch my computer).
>
> BIG PROBLEM: In IE, the body-text is nearly invisible. (Pet peeve: When 
> will people learn that *EVERY* time you set a background color, you *MUST 
> ALSO* set a foreground color and vice-versa??? I see that ignored 
> absolutely all the time. This should be basic, basic Design-101 stuff...) 
> See screenshot: http://www.semitwist.com/download/newDSiteIE.png
>
> I didn't see any of the glitchiness or google-translate stuff that other 
> people saw (on IE7, FF2, or Iron). Although, from the screenshot someone 
> else posted of the translate-bar, I'm glad it's not showing up for me. (I 
> really wish people would stop loading up their pages with Google's crap.)
>

Also, FWIW, this is how it looks in my normal browser (FF): 
http://www.semitwist.com/download/newDSiteFF.png