Re: Homepage tagline idea

From: Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:03:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Homepage tagline idea
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On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Levi Morrison <morrison.levi@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sep 18, 2015 9:04 PM, "Thomas Hruska" <thruska@cubiclesoft.com> wrote: >> >> On 9/18/2015 8:37 AM, Hannes Magnusson wrote: >>> >>> Do you have a suggestion on rephrasing? >>> >>> -Hannes >> >> >> A couple of ideas: >> >> "Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the >> most popular websites in the world to powerful command-line utilities." >> >> The sentence gets a bit wordy and spans multiple lines even at the widest >> layout. >> >> >> "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language for building robust >> web applications and command-line utilities." >> >> It's a bit longer than the original sentence but doesn't span multiple >> lines at the widest layout. >> >> >> Only one sentence should mention the command-line. And the above are just >> a couple of ideas. If you don't like either one, I can try coming up with >> something else. By the way, even if you don't like the second idea, just >> excluding " and command-line utilities" results in a sentence with more >> "punch" than the original: >> >> "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language for building robust >> web applications." >> >> And it's shorter than the original too. > > I like this. What do you think, Hannes? Sounds good. Go for it. Looks like the header needs a slight change to accommodate shorter tagline. -Hannes

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