Hi Helgi

Thanks for your feedback. We have already started doing the XHTML markup for the designs but would be happy to do a draft for the pear website with the 2 level menu afterwards. I assume the different subsites will need a slightly adjusted color scheme etc anyway, correct? Anyone else any special wishes?

In regards to the boxes, I think they are an essential part of the design, sure you guys could still decide to put all news in one box in the end, but I think it looks very neat as it is. The padding and boxyness has the main reason and advantage that the site is loosened up a bit. Where in the past it was difficult to separate certain content visually, this is now much easier.

Cheers
Kian



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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson [mailto:helgith@gmail.com]
Gesendet: Montag, 9. Juni 2008 02:11
An: Hannes Magnusson
Cc: PHP Webmaster ML; pear-webmaster@lists.php.net; pecl-webmaster@lists.php.net; php-gtk-webmaster@lists.php.net; Kian T. Gould - AOE media GmbH
Betreff: Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] PHP.net Redesign

Hi,

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Hannes Magnusson
<hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
> (Since, in my opinion, the pear/pecl/gtk websites should all share
> basic design ideas I am crossposting to all the webmaster
> mailinglists, sorry :))
>
> During the past few weeks we have received various mockups for new
> design of www.php.net, some of them bad other good and one kickass
> awesome.
>
> The kickass awesome one (from AOE media) can be found at:
> http://phprelaunch.aoemedia.de/
>
> I would really appreciate any and all feedback on the design,
> preferably constructive though :)

Looks alright, does each news item have to be in it's own box ? I'm
seeing too many boxes :-)
Also it would be kinda nice seeing how the design could handle menus
like we have in pear and pecl, 2 level ones that is.

We used to have everything on the left side but I found that to eat up
too much screen space, especially in the bug system, hence our menu
system all being at the top.

I'm also not sure about all this padding around the layout but I guess
it's a must to emphasize on the boxyness ?

- Helgi