On 7/4/11 4:50 AM, James Fisher wrote:
A second draft: http://eegg.github.com/d-brand/mockup2.png
Changes:
Swapped out logo for more conservative change.
Reduction in size of the tabs.
Search bar.
Quick-download thing. Would have to use OS/arch detection to be effective.
Moved code down into page. Could expand.
And important point that's not evident is that I'm designing for
variable-width. That image is for 1600px width, but that could shrink.
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 8:42 AM, James Fisher <jameshfis...@gmail.com
<mailto:jameshfis...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Jonathan M Davis
<jmdavisp...@gmx.com <mailto:jmdavisp...@gmx.com>> wrote:
Overall, I'd say that I have to agree. I like the current look
and feel of d-
programming-language.org <http://programming-language.org>, and
I don't see anything wrong with its logo either
(and it looks _way_ better than any of the logos suggested here
IMHO). I'm
sure that the site could be improved, but the kind of stuff
being discussed in
this thread is incredibly subjective and it doesn't generally
seem like much
of an improvement. d-programming-language.org
<http://d-programming-language.org> is generally a step up from how
www.digitalmars.com <http://www.digitalmars.com> looks, and the
website situation has been improving. So
truth be told, I don't understand this discussion at all. It
seems to me like
it's a bikeshedding argument on website and logo design. I'm
sure that help on
d-programming-language.org <http://d-programming-language.org>
would be appreciated, but working on redesigning
the website _again_ seems to me like a waste of time which would
be better
spent elsewhere.
I'm not sure what gave the impression that the people in this thread
want to start again from scratch, but that impression seems to be
the source of some hostility. At least in my case, that's *not*
what I'm proposing. Pretty much everything here can be categorized
as formalizing, cleaning up, or improving work that's already been done.
I think the fact that the mockups look quite different from the current
site is generating the heat--something that looks radically different is
different in peoples' minds, even if it's just a new skin.
I like your mockups, the 2nd one better than the first. As with some
other folks, I'm in favor of keeping the existing logo, which I think
would look good with your design--better than it does on the existing
site, in my opinion. I also like that you're designing for variable widths.
One concern I have is that the D site has a lot of pages, and the
navigation can be a bit hairy. I'd like to see a mockup of a sub-page,
a Phobos or Language Spec page for instance, that shows what
sub-navigation would look like with your design.
