Re: PHP.net Site Structure

2009/10/30 Stewart Lord <stewey@ambitious.ca>: > 1. Home > I like the approach of having a larger header on the front page. I think that this is > particularly important if the header on the other pages is going to be minimal. I hate 'home' links. Thats the purpose of the logo to be the 'home' imo. > I thought it might be nice to aggregate news/blog posts from various PHP sites on the front > page. We could list some random titles of blog entries from planet-php or something, but we can't have the entire posts. > 2. Documentation > I agree that we should remove the "interstitial" language step. I would suggest that > we default to the language detected via the Accept-Language http request header first, then english > second. > I don't know what that means, but we already do language detection (iirc the order is; #1 user specified, #2 last browsed, #3 url, #4 accept-language). > 3. Downloads > Currently users have to jump through another page to get the Windows downloads. Should we > provide a direct link to the most popular Windows download? No. The Windows guys want things like this. Its their choice. > 1. Search > I think that we should remove the drop down. There has been talk of using jQuery. This would > make it pretty easy to add a "live search". The question I have is how well will this > perform? We might want to do some tests. > I don't worry to much over it. We have "CDN" in place so latency shouldn't be an issue, and we usually have couple of mirrors in each country. The only bottleneck would be contacting the Y! API for 'external searches', but I'm sure Y! has a javascript API we could offload to if that starts to suck. -Hannes