Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Candidate Info for Home Page

On 7 January 2011 14:46, Stewart Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2011-01-06, at 8:20 PM, Adam Harvey wrote:
>> Top left: information on the floating point bug with a link to the test script.
>> Top right: support information; something titled like "Need Help?"
>> with a one sentence summary of the basic options (mailing list, IRC,
>> StackOverflow, whatever) and a link to /support.
>> Bottom left: get involved.
>> Bottom right: user groups.
>
> Sounds reasonable to me. For the user-groups section, would that be a list of events?

I was thinking more a blurb of text along the lines of this:

User Groups
There are many user groups around the world where you can meet other
PHP developers and share your knowledge. There's probably one near
you!

Then have it link to the list. If we could geolocate reliably we might
want to add a link to the likely nearest group (beyond just the
country highlighting that takes place now), but I doubt that's within
our capabilities at the moment.

>> To be honest, as I've written this, I've kind of come to the
>> conclusion that I actually prefer the existing news feed, and that we
>> might be better off shunting the non-news information into the
>> sidebar. :)
>
> I don't have much of an opinion either way. It's easier to design the center section if it's a big news feed. On the other hand It could end up looking a bit bland and there won't be as much opportunity to feature other information.

Yeah, I certainly understand the blandness point, but I'm just not
sure that we have enough information to fill a 2x2 grid long term
(and, importantly, change it often enough to keep it interesting). I'd
like to hear some other voices, though!

>> I'm not too bothered about the elephpants one way or the other: they
>> do add a bit of colour to the page, but I don't think that bar can be
>> any bigger than it is in the mockup. Some people are on screens with
>> limited vertical space.
>
> I agree about the height. If we keep them we could tighten up the download/blurb section a bit. Personally I hope the elephpants stay in some form or another. There are some technical questions in my mind about how we would pre-gen the collages though.

I'm not too concerned about generating the collages, personally.
Should be simple enough to define a narrower group on Flickr or
something based on the existing image group, if needed. We may well be
able to do some interesting things in terms of interactivity and on
the fly generation anyway.

Adam