On 1/17/15 11:42 PM, DaveG wrote:
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 04:44:56 UTC, Israel wrote:
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 02:18:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I took the better part of today working on this:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/780. See
demo at http://erdani.com/d/.
What do you all think? Is it an improvement over what we have now?
I'd appreciate your help with reviewing and pulling this, and also
with improving the colors (which I'm terrible at) and page tracking
as mentioned in the pull request.
I'm no designer, but I do have some comments. Without consistency it
just looks a bunch of parts rather than a singular thing. Some elements
have gradients, some don't. Some elements have round corners, some
don't. Elements with borders use different widths, some have none. In
regards to borders, we engineering types (maybe it's just me) tend to
put boxes around stuff to represent discrete units when basic design
concepts, like proximity and contrast, may be better suited for the
task. I just took a quick pass at it in the browser:
Original: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/current.png
Cleanup: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/001.png
Cleanup w/o bg: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/002.png
Think "consistency and subtlety". Good design generally goes unnoticed.
Looking good. Could you please do a pull request after mine gets in?
Thanks! -- Andrei
