639122 - Add "snippets" to start page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Product Site, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Mozilla has the ability to push "snippets" to their start page[1], sending traffic to places they deem important. I think we should do something similar to this.

Snippets, for our purposes, should be a small image (size to be determined) along with a short blurb of text (one line), placed under the search box on /start/.

I think we should only show snippets when other alerts don't appear (like "update" alerts or "upgrade Flash" alerts if we decide to put those on the start page).

Things we might wish to link to?

  * Our help section
  * Our blog
  * Surveys and contests Camino is competing in
  * Summer of Code-related things when we participate (not this year)
  * Beta versions of Camino 2.1 or future releases

I'd love to see other ideas of things to place here.

[1] http://www.google.com/firefox

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Here's what I'm thinking... I'll have use PHP to rotate through the snippets. I'll setup a system that choose a "random" snippet each time out of a set. We can add to the set later, but for now I'll add a "blank" snippet to the set as default and show to everyone.

Additionally, I'll manually setup *one* snippet for bug 708083 that PPC users can see, using JS and outside of the system. They'll see only this snippet. When we have more snippets, we'll put the system in place and turn it on, removing the PPC-only snippet on the page.

Comment 2

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Alternatively, I could add something to the PHP that says "if PPC, show this snippet, else rotate through these snippets", but then PPC users would only ever see that one and never another one. And if we had 100 snippets, that'd suck. (Please let us never have 100 snippets.)

Comment 3

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

I've worked up a sample of two snippets, just to show what a two-row and three-row snippet would look like. Note that the two-row snippet would be higher in the page, where the three-row snippet is. And of course, the text and the image could (and probably would) change.

  http://www-stage.caminobrowser.org/start/

Comment 4

[Samuel Sidler (:ss)]

Given the current state of the Camino project, we won't be fixing these website bugs. Mass changing our Product Site bugs (search on "camino-website-bugs").

RESOLVED -> WONTFIX.