Re: Home Page Mock-up

On 4 January 2011 03:12, Christopher Jones <christopher.jones@oracle.com> wrote: > On 01/02/2011 11:38 AM, Stewart Lord 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... Really good work. I like it a lot. > I think having the title "Downloads" near the download links will help > disambiguate what that area is for.  It will also aid visual and > machine searches. Visually I think having the three (5.3, 5.2 and > Windows) download fonts and descriptions identical would help unify > that section.  The different arrow orientation is not immediately > understandable (nor will most folk care whether the link is local or > not) so I suggest just making them all point down. I actually like having the newest stable branch be in a bigger size. It's a constant battle to get users to upgrade from old branches, and that sort of thing helps reinforce it. If the Windows download link is retained (more on that in a moment), then I'd probably be inclined to change the arrow to a highly stylised version of the Windows logo. I could mock something up quickly if desired. > If someone has more time, it would be good for the downloads area to > be simplified to just two links "PHP 5.3.4" and "PHP 5.2.16", with the > download page then giving options for bz2/tgz source, Windows etc. Agreed; I think reorganising the way we list downloads in general to group by version first, then platform and download type (source/binary) would be a nice improvement. Adam