New home page

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/4/10 12:42 CDT, Denis Koroskin wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:23:29 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> On 10/3/10 18:09 CDT, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com
>>>
>>> Yes, I should add some color and style sheets, but at the moment I am
>>> just trying to get the layout right and make it much simpler to get to
>>> what I think are the most useful links.
>>>
>>> Comments welcome.
>>
>> Hm, looks like only on my machines the page looks broken (see
>> http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/4693/screenshot20101004at122.png).
>> This occurs on FF/OSX and Chrome/Ubuntu. On my other two combos, the
>> DMDScript column is not misaligned, but the whole thing is still too
>> narrow and doesn't fill the width of the browser window.
>>
>> Could someone post a screen capture so I can figure how the site is
>> meant to look? Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Opera, Windows 7:
> http://habreffect.ru/files/532/fd0f166e1/digitalmars.com.png
>
> Looks almost the same in IE and Chrome ("D", "C/C++" and "DMDScript"
> captions are all rendered with Times New Roman or similar font in those
> browsers).

Thanks. I update my opinion to "definitely crappy even in its intended 
look".

The three-column layout ignores the width of the browser and is 
unnecessarily cramped. What is this, a newspaper column featuring an 
obscure announcement?

The short width of the columns and the lack of hyphenation makes the 
text hopelessly ragged.

The icons are disproportionately large compared to the text.

The top three links are identical in the three columns, but there is no 
horizontal structure to acknowledge that symmetry. In fact the links 
inside columns form a menu of sorts, but are not visually laid out as 
menus.

The "site search" box is... out there.

"Code of the Nerds" is old. Drop.

I find it surprising that anyone on this forum finds this format even 
remotely passable, never mind better than the old one (which didn't set 
the bar all that high).


Andrei