Redesign of dlang.org
Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 18 10:20:43 PDT 2014
On 18 April 2014 15:22, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:04:03 -0400, Aleksandar Ruzicic
> <aleksandar at ruzicic.info> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been D enthusiast for couple of years now (but I do not participate
>> much in discussions here, although I read forums almost daily), and I keep
>> telling people about D and how awesome it is.
>
>
> Great!
>
>
>> But, all this time D's official website somehow archaic look kept
>> troubling me. It reminds me of early 2000's design and I really cannot
>> associate this design with "modern" or "elegant", what D really is.
>> I think that we must invest time and energy improving the website's look
>> and feel as that is what people first coming to D will see. We need to
>> strive for "wow" and not "meh" as a first impression.
>>
>> So I have started this thread to see if there is a chance for complete
>> redesign of dlang.org.
>>
>> I have also tried to design something myself (although I'm not a designer)
>> and this is what I came up with:
>>
>> http://krcko.net/dlang.org/dlang-home-draft1.png
>>
>> I'm not entirely satisfied with it but I believe that it looks better (or
>> at least more modern) than the current design.
>>
>>
>> So, what do you guys think?
>
>
> To be honest, it looks no "better" than the current website. Basically it's
> more windows-8-ish. But I don't think it's a significant improvement. BTW, I
> don't think you properly remember early 2000's web sites...
>
Really? To me it looks like the OP is mimicking Github dccumentation pages.
eg: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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