On 21.12.2015 14:58, anonymous wrote:
http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/
On GitHub if people want to play around with it:
https://github.com/aG0aep6G/dlang.org/tree/Ivan-Smirnov's-redesign
That's a full clone of dlang.org in the new style. I just pasted it over
the old style, and hacked around on top of it until it worked, more or
less. It's a quick and dirty showcase. I touched everything, but
polished nothing. There are more rough edges than smooth ones.
Since Andrei and Jacob are having creative differences, I figured I'd
just go ahead with this my way, without changes to the tooling.
This is a more proper implementation of the redesign than what I showed
before:
http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/
https://github.com/aG0aep6G/dlang.org/tree/Ivan-Smirnov's-redesign
It's far from done, and I don't know if I'm going to work more on it
over the holidays. So next year maybe.
Todo/notes:
* Legalities
What's the legal status of this? Did Ivan Smirnov give his permission to
use the visuals? If not, can we get it, do we need it?
* Reorganization of the menu
I reorganized the menu quite a bit. The layout simply doesn't allow for
many top level items. I don't think it's for the worse.
* Logo
Using the current D logo for now.
* Medium width menu bar
Try making the browser narrower until the main menu bar has two lines of
text. I don't like that solution, but switching to the layout with the
menu button seems silly at that point. Suggestions welcome.
* Subnav on narrow screens
Example: http://d-ag0aep6g.rhcloud.com/spec/intro.html
Can't have it as a side bar when the window is too narrow. Solution
could be to have a link back to a dedicated TOC page instead.
Suggestions welcome.
* "your code here" height
Many "your code here" snippets are too long. Cut them down, or change
the layout to accommodate for them? I'd go with cutting them down. That
may make the whole "your code here" idea pointless.
* Fonts
Do we go with Roboto Slab? What fallback fonts to use, and in what
order? Candidates from the current dlang.org and from the mock-up are:
Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, Deja Vu, BitStream Vera Sans.
I didn't adopt the monospace font from the mock-up, because it looked
pretty bad to me (rather wide, isn't it?). Plain 'monospace' is DejaVu
Sans Mono on my system. That one looks better, imo.
* That blank space below "Documentation" on the home page
If anyone has an idea on how to stuff it, shoot.
* Forum and twitter widgets
Does anyone make use of these? I'd totally throw them out, but it may
better to be conservative for now. Have to style them properly then.
* forum.dlang.org and visuald.dlang.org
... will have to be updated, too. I think this is a good opportunity to
unify the menu situation.
* "Home" link?
Do we need a named Home link in the menu bar, or is the clickable logo
enough? There is no other way to get to the home page.
* "your code here" link
Would be nice if the subject line could be prefilled with "[your code
here]".
* Javascript fallbacks
Simply haven't done those, yet.
* Deletions that would maybe go under the radar
These things were beloved by some (i.e. Andrei), but in the redesign
they are no more:
* the Slogan
The D Programming Language
Modern convenience. Modeling power. Native efficiency.
* justified text (can easily make a comeback)
* the GitHub ribbon in the upper right corner on the download page
