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> 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/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
