Go: x/website: a modern or better design for golang.org / godoc.org / Go's official websites

[redstrike]

Hello,

Go is very awesome, but I think Go's official websites should have a better design. It's really not eyes-friendly / eyes-catching for looking up tutorials, docs, API references. They should have a better syntax highlight themes. For someone who is not a hardcore programmer or native English speaker like me, it's really terrible to scan/skim/read the contents on Go's websites. The poor design of official websites makes Golang looks like an old programming language (this is the feeling not logic).

Below is random websites which are eyes-friendly / eyes-catching than Go's:
http://developer.android.com/
https://developer.apple.com/swift/
https://www.python.org/
http://symfony.com/
https://www.djangoproject.com/
http://laravel.com/
http://fatfreeframework.com/home
http://hacklang.org/
http://hhvm.com/
http://php.net/

Forgive me if your eyes have no problems while looking up for docs, API refs on Golang's websites :)

[parkr]

I actually really prefer the aesthetic of Golang.org and Godoc.org. Due to the lack of noise and fluff, it is really easy to read and make contributions to. I think it's great as-is.

[adg]

It is very subjective, but the web site needs work and I hope to have it
improved over the next few months.

On 20 February 2015 at 08:08, Parker Moore [email protected] wrote:

I actually really prefer the aesthetic of Golang.org and Godoc.org. Due to
the lack of noise and fluff, it is really easy to read and make
contributions to. I think it's great as-is.

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[bcmills]

CC @spf13

[spf13]

@andybons and I have been working on this for the past while. We should have something up in the next few weeks.

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Change https://golang.org/cl/177498 mentions this issue: godoc/util: serve SVG files raw

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Change https://golang.org/cl/178137 mentions this issue: content/static: revamp main header and clean up markup

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Change https://golang.org/cl/178138 mentions this issue: content/static, internal/dl: update header on downloads page

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Change https://golang.org/cl/178437 mentions this issue: content/static: fix header styling problems

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Change https://golang.org/cl/180959 mentions this issue: cmd/golangorg,content/static: render homepage using local root.html

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Change https://golang.org/cl/180997 mentions this issue: content/static: clean up homepage to address various issues

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Change https://golang.org/cl/181339 mentions this issue: content/static: update styling of homepage

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Change https://golang.org/cl/182798 mentions this issue: content/static: update playground select to not zoom on mobile

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Change https://golang.org/cl/183038 mentions this issue: cmd/golangorg, content/static: update site footer with new design

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Change https://golang.org/cl/185259 mentions this issue: internal/dl: update download template to use new footer

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Change https://golang.org/cl/189457 mentions this issue: all: update to use new Go branding guidelines