On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 07:44:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
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
The thing with the red gradients looks incredibly horrible/ bad
constrast actually makes it physically (eye strain) unpleasant.
The cleanup looks better, but now the site has 3 columns with 3
different styles (not just colors, but e.g. flat vs gradient,
edgy vs rounded, having that extra border on the bottom vs not
having it)
Dlang.org needs design by a designer, not by art-insensitive
programmers. No, I'm not much of a designer either,
unfortunately. But it should not be too hard to find a student
with decent art sense who can do much better than this.
Also, note that the collapsible menu can be done in pure CSS, no
JS needed, which would allow it to work consistently even with
NoScript.
