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So? It was functional. I hit the website just the other week to update my local XAMPP install, and didn't think for a second about the design. I don't rely on i

by dmunoz 13y ago

So? It was functional. I hit the website just the other week to update my local XAMPP install, and didn't think for a second about the design. I don't rely on it much any more since I have a VPS, but I can use it test locally when my internet goes down (which unfortunately is getting to be too often lately.) The new design is nice looking, but I just checked and to download the portable version I am filtered through to the sourceforge.net page for the project, which I never enjoyed navigating. It's not that difficult, but it's more laborious that the direct link that used to be on the downloads page. Their download page is also very unclear at the moment. You don't know which link is 1.8.2 and which 1.8.3 without hovering over the link. How did that sneak by?

BlakePetersen 13y ago
As a consumer-facing corporate web developer, I am constantly thinking about the design decisions sites make and whether there's anything I can glean from the perceived approach. When spending my time on apachefriends.org this week, it was always on my mind, especially with the narrow layout and that baby icon (seriously spent 5 minutes thinking... 'but... why?'). Unfortunately, I am required to code on a windows machine for my current 9 to 5, so I am fairly limited as to what tools I have to get a LAMP stack up and running quickly and locally. So, XAMPP is my homie for now and it's site is one I kick around from time to time, especially when trying to figure out how to turn off AsychDNS in the curl library (yea... you have to rebuild the lib... fun stuff). Regarding the download pages, I feel the versioning makes sense if you assume the higher XAMPP version correlates to the higher PHP version, which makes sense to me.
- ridruejo 13y ago
  The site design had not changed over literally 10 years (ouch). Current one is not perfect, we will continue to improve it as time permits, but hopefully it is an improvement

by dmunoz 13y ago

BlakePetersen 13y ago

As a consumer-facing corporate web developer, I am constantly thinking about the design decisions sites make and whether there's anything I can glean from the perceived approach. When spending my time on apachefriends.org this week, it was always on my mind, especially with the narrow layout and that baby icon (seriously spent 5 minutes thinking... 'but... why?'). Unfortunately, I am required to code on a windows machine for my current 9 to 5, so I am fairly limited as to what tools I have to get a LAMP stack up and running quickly and locally. So, XAMPP is my homie for now and it's site is one I kick around from time to time, especially when trying to figure out how to turn off AsychDNS in the curl library (yea... you have to rebuild the lib... fun stuff). Regarding the download pages, I feel the versioning makes sense if you assume the higher XAMPP version correlates to the higher PHP version, which makes sense to me.

ridruejo 13y ago
The site design had not changed over literally 10 years (ouch). Current one is not perfect, we will continue to improve it as time permits, but hopefully it is an improvement