My thoughts:
* The animation (click 'Documentation') is too slow. As likely the most visited link, this needs to be instantaneous.
* The top bar takes too much vertical space.
Official PHP site will have a new design
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Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#32I 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?
I hadn't noticed that. Not sure why they can't have the href point to the docs page and use JS to show the fancy menu if enabled.
Then again, this is still a prototype. Hopefully someone will fix this before switching over.
Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#33I really like the new design, but as a PHP developer now using Python... the boat has sailed on making the language better, and more appealing with better designed sites.
I am a Python developer who started with PHP.
PHP has it's place and will have for the foreseeable future. Very low entry bar, huge available workforce, Wordpress and other CMS(and an astronomical number of available plugins and themes) being the main reasons.
Most of the web sites will work fine with a combination Wordpres, some plugins and a readily available themes. Wordpress may not be elegant internally, but it just works and that's what 90% of people need.
My only gripe with PHP is that it's very easy to make a mess out of it(compared to other languages) but then no programming language, no matter how elegant, can save the developer from himself.
Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#34NOT 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'm a big fan of the refresh. I also visit the site several times a day (documentation, not the rest of the site) and this updated design makes it much easier for me to scan.
Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#35Looks great, it only took about 10 years for an eventual redesign shakes head Maybe this refreshed design will help it seem more "modernized" to keep up with the python/rails designs of being trendy
Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#36More repulsive than what's already there.
Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#37NOT 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.
Really hope they don't touch the docs.
Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#38The 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.
I find them very useful in a "Don't Do What Donny Don't Does" way.
Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#39Re: Official PHP site will have a new design
#40NOT 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.
Really hope they don't touch the docs.
I think some of the docs should be better structured in terms of seo as some of the deprecated functions index higher in google than the currently supported classes/methods
that's my only gripe