On 4/18/14, 9:25 AM, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote:
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 15:30:52 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
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Also note that there's a movement to make at least part of the website
(the Phobos docs) use a different documentation generator, so the new
look would need to be ported to that too. I suspect that wouldn't be
hard.
I wasn't aware of that, do you by any chance have links to those threads?
I'm having trouble finding the thread, but I think the idea was to use
vibe.d's ddox[1]. There's a preview of it live at the "Preview new
Layout" link at dlang.org. Folks, please correct me if I got this wrong
and that preview is not powered by ddox.
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Finally I like your look; I think it would be worth refining and
pursuing. I make no claim to be a graphic designer and I'm certainly
not offended by any criticism of the current look; at the time I had
two goals; 1) look better than the previous site at digitalmars.com
and 2) tame the massive sidebar into something more reasonable. I
think they both succeeded but I'm very aware that things can look better.
Thanks! It is just a mockup I made in an hour or so, I would like
to have some real designer(s) involved in this to make it really better.
If you have access to real designers (as you mentioned in another
message) that would be fantastic. I think the mockup you created is
already a good direction but folks with experience in UX, typography,
responsive design etc. could probably make dlang.org properly great.
The current design is waaay better than what we had before and I thank you
on that! That change was really refreshing.
I just think that we should keep pushing forward. And I would also like if
you could be able to join me in a new redesign (if it gets approval), at
least
in a consulting role. :)
I'd be happy to help. My time is more divided nowadays but I'm sure I
can put some time into this. While we're at it some good mobile support
would be awesome too.
[1] http://devdocs.io/
[1] https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/ddox
