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

> From: Stewart Lord [mailto:stewey@ambitious.ca] > On 2011-01-06, at 8:20 PM, Adam Harvey wrote: > > > If we go this way, I wouldn't go any denser than the 2x2 grid in the > > mockup: we don't want to overload people with information on the > front > > page, IMO. I also share Daniel's concerns about aggregating external > > content. > > Thanks for the feedback Adam. 2x2 is what I meant. Apparently my > counting is not so good :) > > > 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? > Maybe this would be an idea: Top left: featured bug (a bug that might be important, can be checked easily and there should be a solution, like the floating point bug), it should be updated at least once a year probably (I don't know if that would be a problem). Top right: support information. Bottom left: what is PHP information. Bottom right: get involved. > > 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. > In the sidebar I would probably put: - Recent news (titles (with links) to the last 5 news items) - A link to a page with conferences - A link to a page with user group events - A "Thanks to" part - Related sites Regards, Mark