On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 13:16:34 UTC, Chris wrote:
[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.
I've been focusing on getting a working site with vibe.d.
Integrating the ddox document generator is a high priority for me
right now, especially since I've finished a lot of work for
formatting the changelog pages.
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?).
I used the Bootstrap framework, which I have also used in my day
job. Bootstrap makes producing a responsive design pretty easy.
I've been periodically testing pages on smaller screens.
Firefox's 'reponsive design mode' helps a lot with this.
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!).
There are many different designs you could produce. Many design
choices are subjective, though not all of them. I think my goals
for the work I've been doing are as follows.
* Improve site navigation.
* Improve display across different devices.
* Improve the quality of text to make it easier to read.
* Make it easier for newcomers to edit, to encourage contribution.
* Run it all with D to tick a "official D site made in D"
checkbox.
There are others, but those are the important ones.
