On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:04:04 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic
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.
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?
-- Aleksandar
[I haven't had time to follow the entire thread, but] I like the
design, it's a good starting point. Especially the integration of
the logo. Nice and clean. (The current logo is just too bulky and
clumsy, imo*)
However, my experience tells me that we should wait with
redesigning it until the technical issues/problems have been
solved, e.g. the migration to vibe.d, which I'm in favor of (I've
had good experiences with vibe.d so far), and the doc generation
issue etc etc. Once that is out of the way, we can think about
new designs. Yours is very nice and "modern". However, we also
have to take mobile devices (tablets, smartphones) into account
and see how we can adapt to these (different layouts or one for
all?).
Another issue is that we don't have to jump on any bandwagon
(every time the "fashion" changes), we can roll our own design,
one that fits the community's and the language's needs,
regardless of what is trendy or "modern" at any given time (don't
imitate, innovate!).
My two cents anyway ...
*(D is already a bulky letter, so there shouldn't be much else on
the logo)
