Re: Candidate Info for Home Page

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 05:09, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: > On 2011-01-05, at 10:33 PM, Stewart Lord wrote: > >> At the moment we are talking about having a right-hand sidebar and a center section with a >> grid like layout. The grid could be two or three columns across and any number of rows tall. Each >> cell in the grid would feature one of the above sources of information (likely with a graphic). > > > Thanks to those that have responded so far. To everyone else... maybe a picture will help. I > have attached a revised (albeit crude) mock-up with a featured content grid and right-hand sidebar. > > What do you think of the elephpants? How about the 4x4 layout? And, of course, what info should > go where? Loving the elephpants. Although I am strongly against introducing external news or even links.. those just look to good to object. There is a risk for the frontpage becoming stale and people stop paying attention to it, I think we should include blurb from newly committed docs, or features in new releases. Just extracting the first header and paragraph from the headers of the page, or even do it manually if automating it becomes to much work. Put f.e. all of http://no2.php.net/manual/en/migration53.new-features.php into the lower boxes could be interesting, or not widly-known features, like http://no2.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-notification-callback.php or whatever.. The top boxes need to be reserved for 'get involved' and support imo, and the lower ones for documentation and website tips&tricks. We do need to highlight events in the users country, like we currently do, somehow. Rather then showing the entire event calendar for the world, we should probably only list the events in the users country, and "5 next conferences" or something. How about in a single horizontal scrollable line, similar to the elephpants? We need to redo the event calendar though, merging the conferences into the event calendar for example, and make the http://php.net/conferences use the normal events (makes it heckofalot simpler to maintain) and make it pretty :] -Hannes