[dlang.org] getting the redesign wrapped up

[Jack Stouffer via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 8 January 2016 at 22:32:59 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> My implementation of the redesign is pretty much complete.
>
> Check it out: http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/

Looks great!

> 3) New Pages
>
> Aside from the overall style changes and menu reorganization, I 
> also added overview pages for the articles and for the tools:
>
> http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/articles.html
> http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/tools.html
>
> They feature new text that should be proofread.

Also great.

> 4) Fonts
>
> Vladimir Panteleev has spoken out against web fonts [2]. His 
> argument is that they can look fine on one system but bad on 
> another. Indeed the recently changed code font on dlang.org 
> looks pretty bad for me while the default 'monospace' looks 
> just fine, which is why I reverted that in the redesign.

One nitpick here: can you change the function signatures to use a 
monospace font (any will do really)? Also, can you institute this 
change to the function signatures as well: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1169

> 5) Justified Text
>
> Andrei loves it, everybody else hates it. I killed it as the 
> mockup didn't have it. Is that ok, or is justified text a must?

See my arguments here: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1152

> 6) Red For Clickables Only?
>
> Currently, the site uses red almost exclusively for clickable 
> stuff. But it's also used as a highlight color for 
> non-clickable things. For example in phobos signatures:
>
> http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/phobos/object.html#.Object
>
> The left borders of the signature boxes are red, and the 
> documented symbol is highlighted with red.
>
> Red does not signal clickability here. I don't like that and 
> I'd prefer to go with another color for generic highlighting, 
> reserving red for clickable stuff.

I would take the converse of your conclusion because I have to 
disagree with the use of red for links. People expect links to be 
blue and underlined and darker when they are already visited; 
it's one of the only design standards that exists on the web.

If you change links to be blue, then you can keep red as a 
highlight color.