Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Home Page Mock-up

On 2011-01-02, at 12:22 PM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

> I think you are misunderstanding something.
> You are *our* designer ;)

Haha, so it seems. I was thinking of pinging Daniel to see if he has any input.

> Love the top. I wonder if the 'php logo' should have the "current"
> style below it?

Great! Glad to hear it. Sure, we can add the "current" style. That's a good idea.

> The news.. not a great fan.
> How about only showing the latest few news titles on the right, along
> with a list of latest PECL and PEAR releases.

Ok, I haven't invested much time there, so it's good to get this input now. 

> Then replace the main content with small text snippets about like
> "Join the community", "Navigation tips&tricks", ..,
> Similar to 'what makes fedora so great' on http://fedoraproject.org/,
> the bottom half of http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/, and
> http://www.ubuntu.com/

I'll see what I can do. I was thinking it would be cool to incorporate a flickr feed of elephants. Maybe I can work that in somehow.

> Been poked by few people on IRC that feel very very strongly about it.
> I personally don't care, as long as the max-width isn't stupidly low.
> I am a great fan of liquid layout, but when a single paragraph becomes
> 1mile long.. it becomes really really hard to read.

Ya, I figured as much. Well, maybe we can keep the body stretchy, but leave the header/footer fixed. Maybe you or Paul can try to fix it? Currently the left hand side isn't collapsing if you narrow the browser window (at least in webkit, haven't tried firefox).

> On a related note: What do you think about cloning the
> 'mega-drop-down' style for the footer (of all pages)? Wouldn't be
> similar sized as the current help menu.
> We could throw in mirror info and stuff like that in there..

That's a good idea. I'll mock it up. 

I'm back to work on Tuesday. This means I probably won't be able to contribute as often. We've made some great progress since your big Xmas push. Let's try to keep things moving, even if a bit more slowly.

Cheers,
Stew