Web site design

138. 2010: Yet another great year for PHP

Posted on: 2010-12-23

2010 was an year full of interesting happenings for the PHP development and its community of developers.

This article presents a balance of what were the most important happenings in the PHP community in 2010, as well a reflection of what we can expect for 2011 for PHP, as well for the PHPClasses site.

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136. AJAX 2: New possibilities offered by XMLHttpRequest level 2 specification

Posted on: 2010-11-23

AJAX applications are often implemented using the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object.

XMLHttpRequest is getting a new specification named Level 2. This post is just a quick note about another interesting article about what new specification brings and how you can take advantage of it in your AJAX applications.

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120. Launched the winning design of the Web Design 2.0 contest

Posted on: 2010-03-31

The PHPClasses site had Web Design 2.0 contest, i.e. a design contest that allowed the users to propose new designs, allowed the users to try the proposed the designs in real pages, and allowed the users vote on their preferred design. Now the winning design is finally being launched.

This article talks about the initiative and interviews the finalists that disputed the second turn of the election. They gave their opinion about the present and future editions of the site redesign contest.

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112. Site design contest results announced

Posted on: 2010-01-04

The results of the first turn of the Design Award contest were announced.

A second turn will follow because none of the contestants got at least 50% of the votes.

This article tells about how the contest went so far and explains how the second turn will work.

It also mentions some of the upcoming site features that have been in development, now that the design contest developments have practically ended.

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111. Vote on your preferred design proposal

Posted on: 2009-12-17

The period for submit proposal for the design contest has ended. Now is time to choose on which you prefer. This article explains the design voting and commenting process.

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110. Screencast of how to create and submit a design theme proposal

Posted on: 2009-12-08

This article presents a screencast that demonstrates how to create and submit a new theme proposal for the site design contest.

It should be useful for all those willing to submit a proposal but could not understand clearly how to take the most of the design editor tool provided by the site.

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109. Site design contest is getting started

Posted on: 2009-12-01

The PHPClasses site redesign contest is finally getting started.

The deadline for submission was November 30, but by request of a few authors, it was postponed to December 15.

Meanwhile, several design proposals were submitted and available for commenting.

This article tells more about these and other details.

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104. Submit your site redesign proposal for the contest

Posted on: 2009-10-13

The PHPClasses site is accepting new site redesign proposals now.

In this phase, candidates may create design themes using a visual editor. Then they can submit the design theme proposal when they are done.

This article gives more detail of how the visual editor and the proposal system work.

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81. Site design theme editor

Posted on: 2008-09-01

The site is launching an editor that allows designs to propose new site design themes.

This is the initial beta version of the site design editor, but it already allows any designer to try different presentation designs.

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