* //Please note this was written by Daniel. When you see I/my it is Daniel.//

====== Sections ======

The current PHP.net site has no less than 12 top-level menu items plus search. This is intimidating, confusing, and slow to use.
The primary can and should be drastically reduced. 6 or possibly 7 might be a realistic goal?

  - Home
    * Heavily featured search
    * Very concise introduction to PHP leading to tutorials and documentation
    * Action-orientated "Get Involved" introduction.
    * List major announcements. Temporary feature area only used when something 'really important' happens?
    * List upcoming conferences? There are many... maybe have a link to the whole Conference section instead?
    * News headlines. Headlines only, not complete stories. Link to the News section.
    * I like the idea of having a different (larger) header on the homepage than all other places... a front door if you will. This is reflected in my mocks.
    * Ideas (jordi, creds to johannes/philip):
      - Three fat icons with enough whitespace around them on the home would be good, with labels: Download, Documentation, Get Involved
      - below that list the latest announcements
      - don't list all calendar entries, it's long and hard to read, make it a fancy js calendar or something along those lines, with location filters ?
  - Documentation
    * Default to English with clear menu for other languages? (Jump the interstitial step)
    * Otherwise keep this basically the same?
      - Preface
      - Getting started + subsections
      - Installation and Configuration + subsections
      - Language Reference + subsections
      - Security + subsections
      - Features + subsections
      - Function Reference + subsections
      - FAQ + subsections
      - PHP Core: A Hacker's Guide to the Zend Engine + subsections
      - Appendices
  - Download
    * Simplify and emphasize the current most popular option.
    * Otherwise keep this basically the same?
      - Main downloads page
      - Older releases
      - Licenses (moved)
  - Help (new)
    * Currently help is liberally dispersed around the site. Consolidating this section would make sense?
    * Even consolidated, this should interleave with the Documentation as obviously much info is contained there.
      - FAQ. Also include a website (www.php.net) FAQ for questions that are asked at webmaster@php.net. There are many.
      - Getting Help
  - Bugs
    * Does this belong as a top-level option? If not, where does it live?
  - Community
    * What's the deal with Links? Does it belong as its own section? Link in the footer perhaps?
      - Get Involved (new)
      - Conferences (moved)
      - News (moved)
      - Wiki (moved)
      - Mailing Lists (moved)
      - Links? (moved)
      - Logos
  - Login (aka My PHP.net)
    * I think My PHP should go to the footer, and it is NOT a login page btw, but it should have a login form that points to master.php.net imo (Jordi)
 ====== Components ======
  - Search
    * Remove the select dropdown? It is limiting/confusing but it's also useful.
    * Have results-as-you-type? Especially useful for function or other documentation searches.
    * If no dropdown have segmented results? Or do a faceted search results page (my preference)?
    * More clearly indicate tips for searching? I've heard from numerous developers that they didn't discover things like function shortcuts for years.
  - Footer
    * A large footer used as a catch-all for universal links that do not belong in the primary navigation would likely make sense.
    * Footer links also give the opportunity to be verbose if necessary where in the header you want to be very concise.
      - My PHP.net (moved, by jordi, see note above, it's present in the Community dropdown though)
      - Contact
      - Mirrors
      - Copyright
      - Other PHP.net sites (moved)
        * This may be too important for the footer, but I think it could make sense here. (jordi agrees, a link has also been added in the community tab of the megadropdown)
      - (Deleted)
        * Credits
          - Should this just be killed? I could go either way on it.
          - It should be linked somewhere, but need not be here (philip)
          - It is now linked in Community and can also be linked on the copyright page imo (jordi)
        * Advertising
          - Kill it? Does this head off a lot of inquiries?
          - I think killing is fine (philip, jordi)
        * Show source (jordi, since it wasn't mentionned before and philip agrees)
        * Stats (jordi, after checking with others)
  - Menu Systems
    * TBD: We should determine a nice consistent secondary + tertiary nav system. Likely vertical as it's super scalable.