Re: New website for the PHP project

On Mo, 2019-02-04 at 15:32 +0200, Andrey Andreev wrote: > Hi, > > I could nitpick on most of the proposed plan, but I really only > wanted > to reply to this: > > > > > > > > > * A new home page, not a "news" page, but a page simply showing > > > the PHP Logo, a code example maybe and > > > the download link [3]. > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > [3] > > > https://camo.githubusercontent.com/762e5d9fcaaa4ecf645343350a > > > 91929f99f452e9/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f5844776752 > > > 61662e706e67 > I just hate those useless landing pages. > > Yes, it looks neat and clean, but after the initial "OMG so pretty" > phase it just becomes annoying - noone cares about the code example > and I for one never know what "Get Started" means. PHP isn't some > consumer desktop software; nobody would just stumble upon php.net and > "get started" with it, whatever that means ... > > I'm all for a modern look and all, but let's please keep the news on > the index page. Personally, I only go to php.net to look for the > news, > changelogs and to search the docs. This image suggests that I'd need > to do an extra click for each of those things and I'm sure I wouldn't > be the only one unhappy about that. I for one don't think we need news going back to 2017 on the frontpage. I would like a stronger emphasis on the docs and maybe making the search more obvious (you have direct access to all docs from there - it's not just a stupid site search!) johannes