594587 - Copy Page Onto Mozilla.org

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Laura Forrest]

WebDev Direction:
Please re-create the content of mozilla.com on a new page we host at: mozilla.org/firefox. 

This new page only needs to be in English, and not browser specific. This is only acting as a light-weight landing page for some URL testing. Details below. 

Also remove current redirect on mozilla.org/firefox that points to the /Personal page.  

Background:
We want to do some testing to compare the different proposed URLs from a apples-to-apples perspective using Adwords as a sandbox. While the URL switch is 95% decided the goal here is to get more of an educated sense of how it could affect user experience and traffic numbers. Adwords isn't perfect, but it will give us some fairly good learnings and a significant # of cheap clicks. We're also doing qualitative surveys. 

That said, I'm a bit blocked since the mozilla.org/firefox ads don't get through Google editorial. The url's of the destination url and the display url must match -- so right now it has mozilla.org/firefox for the display, but a mozilla.com/firefox destination url. It cannot be a redirect like mozilla.org/firefox is now. Since we're making the switch sometime we'd like to create a light-weight version of mozilla.com in order to conduct these tests.

Comment 1

[David Boswell]

FYI, the current mozilla.org/firefox redirect is set in

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/mozilla.org/trunk/.htaccess?view=log

Comment 2

[David Boswell]

BTW, Mike, I'm happy to help with this but I'm not that familiar with mozilla.com pages and think I'll probably miss something if I just copy and paste HTML from the .com site.

Comment 3

[Mike Alexis [:malexis]]

Thanks, David. cc'ing Alex.

Alex, can you provide David with some guidance on how to set up this page? Or is it more complicated that it appears?

Comment 4

[Alex Buchanan [:abuchanan]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Thanks, David. cc'ing Alex.
> 
> Alex, can you provide David with some guidance on how to set up this page? Or
> is it more complicated that it appears?


CBeard suggested using an iframe, that could work.  Try that first.


Sorry, now that I rethink this, making a copy of the download page is more complicated than I originally thought.

There are a few tricky spots

1) Locale detection.  If you can be sure that we're only sending English users to this page, we can skip this and hard code it to en-US

2) You'll need product-details.  I'm not sure if mozilla.org is using this at all yet.  

3) You need browser detection JS, so that the correct Firefox build is served.

4) I'm guessing there will be other caveats, e.g. /products/download.html doesn't exist.

Comment 5

[David Boswell]

Alex, maybe it would be easier to talk about this in IRC instead of this bug, but if this is more than just dropping down some files into SVN then I'm probably not the best person to own this bug since I don't know much at all about mozilla.com.  I am happy to help though, so feel free to ping me to sort this out (I'll be away from my computer a bit this afternoon, but am around in general).

Comment 6

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Let's go with a full-page <iframe> for now.

Comment 7

[Laura Forrest]

David - is a iframe something you can implement?

Comment 8

[David Boswell]

Laura, I just checked in a page and it should be showing up soon.  Thanks to Alex and Reed for helping.  I'll update the bug when I see it live.

Comment 9

[David Boswell]

OK, this is live now.

http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/

Closing as fixed.  Probably a good idea to do more testing on this before pointing people at it.

Comment 10

[Laura Forrest]

(In reply to comment #9)
> OK, this is live now.
> 
> http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
> 
> Closing as fixed.  Probably a good idea to do more testing on this before
> pointing people at it.

Great, David - thanks for your help here. This URL is now working in Adwords, so my testing can begin! 

I'll QA the page before I start to send traffic.

Comment 11

[David Boswell]

FWIW, the removal of the redirect is causing 404 errors for variations of this URL.  This shouldn't stop testing, but we should add a new redirect for these other URLs so people can get to the right download page.  I opened a bug for this -- bug 595508.