On 14/11/2011 01:50, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Walter and I have been working on the website for a while. We want to
crystallize a clear message of what the D programming language is.
Please take a look at http://d-programming-language.org/new/. The work
is content-only (no significant changes in style, though collapsible
examples and twitter news are a new style element).
Feedback is welcome.
Thanks,
Andrei
- From the first look at the page it's a big block of text with no
code. Very off putting from a programming language home page.
- My advise here would be to *just* show the key bullet points,
click for more information.
- It's covered in buzz words. Are you trying to appeal to managers or
programmers?
- "See example." is actually show/hide example, the text should
reflect this.
- Community
- Maybe mention the IRC channel #D on freenode.
- There's no need for the "Walter Bright" name-drop, particularly in
a community section (Walter is not the community!)
- Contribute
- First thing I see is a bullet pointed list of compilers, DMD is
not listed, perhaps the surrounding text needs to be re-worded
- inconsistent capitalization of (C|c)ompiler
- Definitely needs a "Fork us on github" banner of some sort
A key thing I find missing is code - the first thing I want to see when
I visit the home page of a new language is sample code.
My advise here would be to always have a code section on one side, then
have more information on the other, describing what the code is
demonstrating. Something like http://imgur.com/QL619 where the right
hand side would have code, the left hand side your 3 key points.
--
Robert
http://octarineparrot.com/
