web:redesign:howtohelp

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Want to join the www.php.net redesign effort?

There a bucketloads of things left to do for the www.php.net (http://prototype.php.net) redesign. The frontpage is stabilizing these days, but the code behind it hasn't been fully implemented.

As of Monday, 31 December 2012, this page has been significantly updated by Levi Morrison levim@php.net. Items that were unclear as to whether they are still relevant were kept.

Documentation issues

Primary Navigation issues

  • It falls apart on small screens.
  • It breaks with JavaScript disabled.
  • Not all categories are drop-downs.
    • Should we remove the drop-downs for landing pages?
  • Community portion is dynamic. That's probably not a good thing.

Miscellaneous issues

  • The Thanks To portion takes up a lot of space. Also, why are these people getting thanks? We should convey that to the users or it isn't much of a thanks. It's also been suggested moving this section from the homepage to somewhere else.
  • 'the typography is horrible, navigation makes no sense, “begin tutorial” button looks like a css mistake, the arrow for download php 5.3 looks unconnected to anything, “thanks to” block makes no sense' - tereško
  • Mobile device friendliness.
  • Create a list of User Groups.
  • Implement better calendar system, and show UG meetups and conference more prominently
  • Identify content missing from current php.net homepage that should be in the new version.
  • Make conferences section dynamic.
  • Make user group events dynamic (preferably localized somehow)
  • Use the moderated flickr group feed (http://www.flickr.com/groups/elephpants) for the elephpant pics Done, I think.

Tweeted concrete feedback

Howto hack on stuff?

Execute https://wiki.php.net/web/mirror#i_m_lazy_just_give_me_something_to_execute

The frontpage beta code is located in index-beta.php Other things should be trivial to figureout where is.

Hack on whatever you don't think is pretty, or add functionality you want. Once you have something you would like to share, create a patch (`svn diff > my.changes.patch.txt`) and send it to php-webmaster@lists.php.net

I want to share my 2cents regularly

Subscribe to the webmaster mailinglist (send blank email to php-webmaster-subscribe@lists.php.net) and participate in the discussions there :)

I want to modify this page

Register for an wiki account (https://wiki.php.net/start?do=register) and send a quick “I am human” email to php-webmaster@lists.php.net confirming your wishes to edit this page.

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