On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu < seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote:
> On 7/3/11 7:15 AM, James Fisher wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com >> >> <mailto:d...@me.com>> wrote: >> >> On 2011-07-02 23:01, James Fisher wrote: >> >> So, here's a website mockup: >> >> http://eegg.github.com/d-__**brand/mockup.png<http://eegg.github.com/d-__brand/mockup.png> >> >> >> <http://eegg.github.com/d-**brand/mockup.png<http://eegg.github.com/d-brand/mockup.png> >> > >> >> Comments appreciated. >> >> >> In general I like it. I think the top tabs are a little too big. You >> could cut the height in half I think, it's wasting a too much >> vertical space. You can easily cut off 30px above and below the text >> in the tabs. >> >> >> That is true, though I do have a few reasons for keeping 'em big: >> >> - I think the composition works better with it being a half or a third >> of the height of the sand-color banner. >> - potentially, a second layer of links could be introduced. (Though in >> general I shy away from multi-level top-level links as over-engineered, >> unless the site is really complex, which it's not.) >> - on other pages, e.g. the docs, I'm considering having the logo in the >> dark banner (at the same x-pos). This would require some space. >> - last but not least, it's the web, not paper, and we have all the space >> we want for free! >> >> I would be nice to see a mouckup of one page from the language >> reference and one from the library reference, for example: >> >> http://d-programming-language.**__org/lex.html >> >> <http://d-programming-**language.org/lex.html<http://d-programming-language.org/lex.html> >> > >> http://d-programming-language.**__org/phobos/std_string.html >> >> >> <http://d-programming-**language.org/phobos/std_**string.html<http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_string.html> >> > >> >> >> I'll come up with those when I stop playing around with Inkscape, and >> mock up in HTML/CSS. >> > > One thing that's going somewhat unnoticed in this discussion is that the > site is at the end of a major redesign cycle during which people in this > group gave extensive input on the logo, the color scheme, the fonts, the > page design - pretty much all aspects of the website. I find it surprising > that all that is now as if it never existed. > > > Andrei > Yep, the previous discussion was very helpful in that it shaped the current site. I don't believe that appreciating this discussion makes us discredit that earlier discussion. In a healthy open-source project, all kinds of efforts from the community continually drive to improve the project as a whole.