On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:04:03 -0400, Aleksandar Ruzicic
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I've been D enthusiast for couple of years now (but I do not participate
much in discussions here, although I read forums almost daily), and I
keep telling people about D and how awesome it is.
Great!
But, all this time D's official website somehow archaic look kept
troubling me. It reminds me of early 2000's design and I really cannot
associate this design with "modern" or "elegant", what D really is.
I think that we must invest time and energy improving the website's look
and feel as that is what people first coming to D will see. We need to
strive for "wow" and not "meh" as a first impression.
So I have started this thread to see if there is a chance for complete
redesign of dlang.org.
I have also tried to design something myself (although I'm not a
designer) and this is what I came up with:
http://krcko.net/dlang.org/dlang-home-draft1.png
I'm not entirely satisfied with it but I believe that it looks better
(or at least more modern) than the current design.
So, what do you guys think?
To be honest, it looks no "better" than the current website. Basically
it's more windows-8-ish. But I don't think it's a significant improvement.
BTW, I don't think you properly remember early 2000's web sites...
I don't share your opinion that the web site need to be "modern" to avoid
warding off potential adopters. If they are turned off of using a system
programming language by a bland (debatable) site look and feel, then I
think there was really something else bothering them.
That being said, changing look and feel has a "this site is being
maintained" air to it. I just don't think it's critical enough at this
point to diverge talent away from working on the language.
-Steve
