Some feedback on the website.

[Wyatt via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 December 2015 at 07:07:23 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>
> Home page:
>
> This is a mess. There is way too much here. There is an 
> attention budget and it is important to manage it well.
>
I think you're overstating it: it's a bit busy, but I think it 
can be fixed.

> The usual for a programming language goes as follow :
>  - Logo, color as per branding.

Yeah, we should probably incorporate the red more.

>  - Language name, quick blurb about what it is, usually ending 
> with a link to tutorial.

We have the language name twice!  Do we need a longer blurb?  
None of your examples seem to link to an official tutorial at 
all, so we're ahead of the game there. (Sort of.  It's on a 
different domain and doesn't match "D style".)

>  - Big fat download button.

It's right in the middle of the page.  Should we wrap it in 
<blink> to make it more obvious? (Seriously: I agree it should be 
bigger.  Changelog link smaller and underneath instead.)

>  - Some sample code. The one we have on the front page is way 
> too big. It should be a piece of code that someone with 0 
> experience in the language can understand.

The RPN example is too big.  The sort lines example is nice.  Is 
there some sort of rotation here?  Go kinda gets it right with 
the dropdown.  Scala's tiles are poorly telegraphed.

>  - A menu with quick access to what more experienced users want 
> : stdlib reference, code repository, wiki, forum, language 
> spec, news, this kind of thing.
>
So, the stuff on the sidebar?

> Some examples:
> http://www.scala-lang.org/

Well, I guess it's pretty?  Examples aren't obvious and the 
documentation uses a completely different colour scheme for 
Reasons(?).

> https://nodejs.org/en/

Thoroughly useless bootstrap placeholder.

> https://developer.apple.com/swift/

What on earth?  There's no download at all, no obvious doc link, 
way too much verticality, and they've overdone it on the 
whitespace.  I guess they only care about people with high-dollar 
Apple screens.

> https://golang.org/

Ugly but functional.  Decent layout, though I still don't get 
this fetish for top links.

> https://www.rust-lang.org/
>
Slightly better than Go.  Could we stop pretending 1024x768 is 
The Best Resolution?

> Last but not least, it wouldn't hurt to hire a designer to have 
> something slick.

I think the biggest issues are the sidebar cleanliness and the 
main content having a single-column design.  I like the _idea_ of 
having the discussion boxouts in the right column, but it comes 
at the expense of the rest of the content and contributes to the 
fatigue.

-Wyatt