New front page (Draft)

[derickr]

This draft PR is meant to gather comments for the content on the refreshed landing page for php.net

Please do not merge, as it includes changes to the structure which requires modification on the webserver side.

[mattstauffer]

OK! What we have in this branch, as I can see:

• The new front page itself, in public/index.php
• Frontend support files:
  • include/branch-highlights.inc: frontend-targeted descriptions of highlights of each release
  • public/styles/theme-gst.css and public/js/common.js
  • Many new images
• A "theme" rendering framework in src/Themes
• A new footer design (and new body wrapper, if needed, in the header), opt-in per page: include/header.inc and footer.inc only switch behavior when a page sets $config['include_section'] = false / $config['footer_style'] = 'new'
• An updated version release data layer, founded in src/Releases/Branches.php

Here is a screenshot, since we don't have this on a preview branch:

Full screen

Details

Tasks I think we need to do in order to move forward with this:

• Review any changes made to the non-template code
• Review changes to content
• Review changes to design

I feel like I'm most equipped to be a part of the content and design conversations; as I haven't been really involved in the PHP.net site before, I'd love to leave the first item to others (not sure if @derickr has had a chance to review all this code yet; if not, it'd be great if someone could volunteer to do that.)

I'll leave another comment in a minute about my thoughts, and those I've gathered from others, about content and design.