Re: Home Page Mock-up

On 01/07/2011 08:11 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote:

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 15:06, Derick Rethans<derick@php.net> wrote:

On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Adam Harvey wrote:

On 4 January 2011 15:07, Stewart Lord<stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote:

On 2011-01-03, at 8:14 PM, Adam Harvey wrote:

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.

Not a bad idea. Feel free to give it a shot and we can see what it looks like.

So it wasn't quite as quick as I'd hoped, but the attached image basically shows what I was thinking of for the Windows link. Not sure if want, now I've done it. Thoughts?

Yes. Why should those Windows downloads be somwhere else. They were perfectly fine sitting next to the source downloads on the downloads page.

Downloading PHP for Windows is super confusing. Until they can provide a "universal package" its not really easy to deal with, so I'm kindof fine with them dealing with it their own issues themselfs. Although I do wonder why need so many windows special things and why we don't need http://freebsd.php.net too. As for that Windows "logo", feels weird. Do we need the netbsd flag too? -Hannes

In the same vein that I didn't like the different arrow, I don't think a special Windows logo helps. Using the same arrow for all links was a good indicator that they do the same thing and let you download software. Overall I'm voting for either one or two download links like "Download PHP 5.3.5", or "PHP 5.3.5" & "PHP 5.2.17". Having a Windows link is orthogonal to the version numbers so it doesn't make sense to the user - does it mean that Windows has older or other versions? Simplifying the download section will improve usability by making the choice obvious and not distract from other home-page worthy content. I also think the text "Download" or "Free Download" needs to be next to the link, for normal readers and for people using screen reading software. I think the inconsistency that the 5.2 link doesn't also say "Complete Source Code" is unnecessary - "is it incomplete?" Future nicenesses could include smarts like OS detection and giving the users current platform as the promoted download option with an adjacent "other platforms and versions" link. Some references: http://www.ubuntu.com/ simply has "Download Ubuntu". http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ has "Firefox 3.6 Free Download 3.6.13 for Linix i686 English (US)" and "All Systems & Languages" (I was using a browser on Linux) http://drupal.org/ has "Get Started with Drupal" which goes to http://drupal.org/start which then has "Download Drupal 7.0" I should add a disclaimer that Oracle supports Linux and owns Solaris. Chris -- Email: christopher.jones@oracle.com Tel: +1 650 506 8630 Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/