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Official PHP site will have a new design

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Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

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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…

I really agree on the "Extensions & Libraries" bit. PEAR should not be linked there, it is outdated, filled with really bad pieces of code, and generally not useful at all.

They should really focus on a central library repository, they are alternative out there, but having PHP.net pushing for one (i don't really trust them for creating one) would do a lot of good to the language.

Re: Official PHP site will have a new design

#42
I think it looks great.

My only comment is: put the class synopses (?) in a fixed width font (like they are. In the detail section). It looks odd this way.

+1 for being completely usable on my iPad and not breaking the back button while all still being quite snappy.

FWIW I have no issue with the green. Good work, guys.

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