Yii has a new face
#21
Posted 17 October 2010 - 09:57 AM
One minor point: It would be a great improvement to remove the colors of the headline text on the home page. "The Fast, Secure and Professional PHP Framework"
I think it will look a lot better with the three highlighted words in the same colour (probably a dark grey) and in bold. At the moment it looks a bit simple with them in three primary colours, and distracts attention from the logo.
#22
Posted 17 October 2010 - 10:11 AM
BTW, You should advertise the IRC channel (somewhere under Community). It's a great way of communication cause the quick feedback it provides.
#24
Posted 17 October 2010 - 05:41 PM
Almost two years ago, when I was deciding what framework I was going to use, I chose CakePHP over Yii.
I guess one of the deciding factors was that CakePHP had a cooler website..
Now the Yii website is as cool as Yii itself!
#28
Posted 18 October 2010 - 04:19 AM
I think the main page could use some work though, there is information all over the place in different blocks, it feels messy to me. Especially on a screen with higher brightness configured. Perhaps a more visible separation between the top part (intro, features) and the lower part (news, specials)?
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#29
Posted 18 October 2010 - 04:26 AM
One thing, the landing page is a bit crowded. The separation between sections is not very clear, take for example "Latest news" section versus the section on its left: Stay.com & the book. Also maybe there's too much information for a landing page, at least it's not very well structured.
Congrats!
#30
Posted 18 October 2010 - 04:46 AM
The only thing that, in my opinion, needs a better improvement is the extensions page. The list of extensions is not intuitive and de view is a bit disorganized.
Maybe the possibility of associate a main image to a extension, to differ each one in the list, would be nice. And organize the extension view in tabs would be cool to (Description, Download, Documentation, Changelog, ...).
Congratulations to all involved in the project
#31
Posted 18 October 2010 - 07:40 AM
soso, on 18 October 2010 - 04:26 AM, said:
I have to agree! When I start with this page I don't know where to look at the first moment. Give the content a little bit more free room. For example you can use some kind of slider -- something like this one: http://nivo.dev7studios.com/
Another thing would be great: add the version number of Yii to the download button. I know that the version is placed under the button but at the first moment I tried to find it in the version above the button and in the bottom.
#32
Posted 18 October 2010 - 08:38 AM
I love everything except one little thing: the API! I prefered having classes listed from A to Z rather than under categories, for being able to switch quickly from one to another (using ctrl+F is not possible anymore for classes under unexpanded nodes).
Other than that, love it
#33
Posted 18 October 2010 - 08:46 AM
teher811, on 18 October 2010 - 08:38 AM, said:
Other than that, love it
You may try the ajax-driven search (eg type "sess" to get to "CHttpSession"). Personally, I find the new API much better to navigate since it's well structured now. If I want to list all cache classes I just extend the system.caching node. Much better than doing ctrl+F+"cache".
#34
Posted 18 October 2010 - 08:54 AM
Y!!, on 18 October 2010 - 08:46 AM, said:
You're obviously a mouse fan
Will get used to it, but the older method was faster.
#35
Posted 18 October 2010 - 09:49 AM
Y!!, on 18 October 2010 - 08:46 AM, said:
Yep, I guess I'll get used to it. Only a matter of time!
#37
Posted 18 October 2010 - 01:25 PM
All classes are listed in the table on the right, and there you can use CTRL+F
#38
Posted 18 October 2010 - 01:49 PM
I actually just found one huge gripe with the site, the :focus { outline: 0 none; }. That is horrible for accessability and keyboard navigation. Style it, make it nicer, use -moz-outline-radius, but don't get rid of it !
http://www.456bereas..._form_controls/
http://people.opera....s/keyboard/test
http://www.accessibl...keyboard-focus/
#39
Posted 18 October 2010 - 02:32 PM
I also added TOC to extension detail pages.

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