Re: Beta site blues

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. I personally would only like to see events in my country, but seeing as I'm in the US, even that list can be long. >> — 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. Agreed. I haven't been following the website at the moment because I have a lot of things due right now, but it does say PECL + PEAR. Did it used to say only PEAR? >> — 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. Colors are easily changed. I'd worry a lot more about the sidebar issues. I will look into this, though. Levi Morrison