Re: Beta site blues

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 07:41, Adam Harvey <aharvey@php.net> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm wiring up the remaining bits of the new site, since I think it's > well past time that we bit the bullet and got it out there rather than > having it slowly bitrotting behind a cookie. We've got a handful of > remaining issues on the home page, though, and rather than changing it > significantly myself this late in the piece, I'd like to gather some > opinions so I have something in the ML archive to point at when people > complain. :) > > — The sidebar is way, way long with our real user group and training > events in there (at present we have 159 events in pregen-events.inc, > which is just this month and next). This pushes the "Thanks to" > sidebar element miles down the page, to the point where it's > effectively invisible to the average user. Are we better off just > displaying events in the country the user is in, using the same > algorithm we currently use to bold those events on the old site? That makes sense. I do believe Mike is working on something in this area too though (integrating against joind.in), maybe he has suggestions. > — Related to the above: the left column is very sparse if there's > anything much in the right hand column (such as 159 events). Do we > want to revisit having, say, the most recent two or three news items > in full below the four box introduction? The new box is nice, but > having more detail below the fold without requiring clicks on the news > entries in the sidebar would be good. Mmmm.. I don't think thats such a good idea, think it will just look awkward. > — Are there any massive objections to dropping PEAR from the lower > left box and rewriting it to simply be about PECL? PECL is special, > since it's the blessed extension repository, but PEAR doesn't really > have much claim over competing repositories at this point (sorry, PEAR > people) and it's probably better not to endorse one in particular. As long as PEAR is a PHP project I don't think we should drop it. > — Am I alone in really disliking the green background on the announcements box? The coloring is weird indeed. But again, I think Mike is working on something. -Hannes