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Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by wazoox » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:01 PM UTC

elisee wrote: post #16

Looks a lot less dated than the other one so good job on that front. Not sure if anyone working on the design / copy is reading this, but I'm wondering why they felt compelled to add "popular" to "PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language [...]". Should people use or be interested in PHP because it's popular? How is this a differentiating feature worth mentioning in the first sentence introducing PHP? (Genu…

My company does some developments in PHP precisely because it's popular, and nothing else. For everything we don't expect our customers to want to modify by themselves, we use various languages but certainly not PHP.

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by fsniper » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:04 PM UTC

Looking good. Seems like the underlying code is the same. Only an aesthetic change. But the search may be a bit changed..

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by hieronymusN » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:04 PM UTC

EToS wrote: post #10

ck2 wrote: post #4

Make all the green parts blue and I can accept it. Green is terrible. Plus my elePHPant would seem strange in green.

Yeh green be the least compatible colour in existence

And yet, most of the world is green.

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by brador » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:21 PM UTC

NOT SURE.

I visit PHP.net around 20 times a day according to my stats. It's the single most efficient website I know for getting what I need, fast. I do not need more white space on that site. It would not improve my user experience.

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by leftnode » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:25 PM UTC

The biggest thing php.net needs is moderation on the comments. There are some 10+ year old comments that are just wrong now. Cleaning that up and moderating a comment before it is posted would be great.

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by jmilkbal » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:31 PM UTC

The Wayback machine shows me that the current design is nearly 11 years old.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010401091809/http://php.net/

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by robryan » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:34 PM UTC

brador wrote: post #24

NOT SURE. I visit PHP.net around 20 times a day according to my stats. It's the single most efficient website I know for getting what I need, fast. I do not need more white space on that site. It would not improve my user experience.

I'd agree the current layout for the docs are fine. I think though the front end advertising php and providing news/ downloads could use a new look.

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by ten7 » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:43 PM UTC

Should've hired an actual UX and/or Interactive Designer to do the redesign and not leave it in the hands of us developers (again). Hope there are further improvements!

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by romaniv » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:51 PM UTC

It does look better than the current site, but does it really need that bar of images at the top of the page?

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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Post by romaniv » Wed, Jan 18, 2012, 12:52 PM UTC

kingofspain wrote: post #7

I quite like it. I don't think it's too bad as a standalone site but compared the previous one, it's amazing . I do like the documentation menu. Similar to the way Codeigniter does it.

The menu completely fails to work without JavaScript. Is it really that difficult to design things properly and provide a graceful fallback?