Re: Updated Home Page Mockup

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: > > On 2011-06-24, at 9:30 AM, Paul Dragoonis wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca> wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> I've attached an updated home page mockup. Not sure if anyone remembers >> the previous mockup, but this one adds icons and makes the footer look more >> like the header (as per Hannes suggestion). >> >> The footer needs more thought to figure out what links it should contain >> and how they should be presented, but I'm more interested in hearing what >> you guys think about the layout, the icons and the information that I chose >> to feature in the 2x2 grid and sidebar. >> >> Thanks, >> Stew >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > Good work Stew!!! > > Can you add left and right arrows for the elephpant spinner and I will get > that hooked up into a nice jQuery plugin for you. > > Digging the homepage sections ;-) > > > > Thanks Paul, yes I can add some arrows. Since you volunteered :) ...you > might want to think about how we can do the elephant spinner and avoid > adding a slew of http requests. For example, we could sprite them or we > could have a script that serves a random set as base64 encoded JSON and then > we embed them using the data scheme? > > Depends how many images we're talking, we can load the amount on the homepage visible when the page loads (say 10?) into the 1 sprite. Once the jquery plugin cycles out of range then we can ajax in another 10. Two http requests to show 20 images is a pretty good enhancement here. Let me know when you want my involvement, best to ping me an email directly when you're ready as I don't always get a chance to keep on top of the mailing lists.