Redesign of dlang.org

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 05:46:57 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> The complaint I have for D is that too much memory is consumed 
>> for building D programs. The memory usage made it impossible 
>> for me to build the vibe.d site on my Linode, which the site 
>> above linked is running off of. The only way I was able to get 
>> the site to run on my Debian Wheezy server was to install a 
>> bunch of libraries from Debian testing, compile the program on 
>> my Arch Linux desktop, and then upload and run it on my server.
>
> Isn't the problem here that you are having to deploy in order to
> develop? Maybe I am just missing something, but it sounds as 
> though
> there isn't actually a development workflow, just a create and 
> release
> one.

Yes, that is a deployment issue. Deployment is a hot issue for 
me, for some reason. I tend to get annoyed if building software 
or deploying it is just a bit too tricky to do. So when they 
work, I like things like 'git pull origin master && dub build.'

> The Go website has it's faults, but it has a lot of good stuff,
> analogues of which would be well worth considering for a revised
> dlang.org. dlang.org may be a bit static and not of the 
> currently
> fashionable style, but it has a brand image.

Branding does need to be worked on. Speaking of the site I'm 
working on... I would love to see something like the current D 
logo, but flatter. Then I think it needs a bit more colour in a 
few places. (We've adopted 'sort of blackish' and 'sort of 
redish' as brand colours. I also like D guy. I'd like to see a D 
guy which just fits naturally on the pages. It's kind of hard to 
tell what would unless you just put an image on the page and see 
what fits.