Re: Home Page Mock-up

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 20:38, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have attached a mockup for the front page. It is a work in progress, but I thought it was a > good time to get some feedback on the look and layout. Let me know what you like/dislike about it. > Keep in mind I am not a designer... > I think you are misunderstanding something. You are *our* designer ;) Love the top. I wonder if the 'php logo' should have the "current" style below it? 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. 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/ > Also, I wanted to broach the topic of fixed width vs. liquid layout. I know some work went into > making the layout stretch to fill the browser. At the moment, however, this doesn't seem to be > working very well. Liquid layouts also make it harder to design a nice layout because things never > line up consistently. How strongly do you feel about having the page stretch? > 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. 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.. -Hannes