Re: test event calendar please
| From: | Colin Viebrock | Date: | Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:03:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: test event calendar please | ||
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> finding ways to encourage more people to use the mirrors would be a
> good thing, i think. making www.php.net simply be a site that bounces
> people to other mirrors is an interesting idea.
>
> we should probably boost the recognition of mirrors a bit, too. what
> about moving the 'mirror provided by' stuff to the top of the page
> instead of the (rather useless, imho) current date?
Good idea.
> i think cutting out the mirror selection dropdown (and just providing
> a more prominent link to the mirrors page) would make sense, too.
> right now that dropdown adds 5k of extra weight on every page that i
> suspect rarely gets used.
Also a good idea. The only place a drop down might be useful is on the
downloads page, to *really* encourage people to use their closest mirror.
In this case, we wouldn't want it in the commonfooter() either, but just in
the main window.
I'm swamped with stuff this week, but I can get to this when I have a minute
(although these are really simple changes, so anyone feel free to do them).
- Colin