488623 - Personas for Firefox AMO page needs decent preview images

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Labs Graveyard :: Personas Plus, defect)

Description

[Dave Garrett]

Attachment: cropped screenshot of page with screenshots... of webpages with cropped screenshots

Please put actual screenshots of Personas for Firefox on its AMO public page. The default preview image up top has cascading windows with it in use, but you can hardly tell without zooming in. Some of the other many problems with these pics:
- The default preview pic shows the full browser, instead of focusing on the product.
- In showing the full browser there's a website shown: the download page for Firefox 2. Why? Seeing as Personas requires Firefox 3+ this looks very strange.
- The other 4 images are screenshots of the main Personas website, not of the extension itself. Again, odd. Don't show images of a page of images; show the actual images. That front page graphic of skins on hangers could easily be put in here by itself with a caption added on. The second one with a page of browsing images is ok, but could be better. The third and fourth are useless. No one needs to see a form or a "thanks for installing" page here.
- The last 3 webpage screenshots have a lot of dead space in them.
- The default pic has a white background. Transparency is a better idea here.

I suggest a cascade of browsers with Personas on them along side the Personas logo for the default preview pic. Just show the top of the browser and no content or status bar. You need to be able to see what it actually is.

As to the second image, you can just use the relevant hangers graphic with a caption and not the whole front page. The rest is clutter here.

For the others I'd suggest 3 big pages full of different skins that are available. Maybe one of screenshots of a dozen browser tops/bottoms with popular skins and another couple with 30 or so skin preview images each. The whole point of this is the variety of skins to let users personalize their browser. Show them.

I'm sure others can come up with other ideas here. My point is that the ones currently in use look very out-of-place and don't make much sense. Please come up with something that actually shows off your extension. ;)

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

At some point this was fixed.

The default preview pic is now the hangers graphic. The old screenshots were all removed and replaced with 7 cropped screenshots of popular personas in-use. All the problems noted have been dealt with. This is infinitely better and looks quite nice now. Thanks.