845041 - Update design on Complete Themes landing page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect, P3)

Description

[Amy Tsay [:amyt]]

We should update the Complete Themes landing page per Bram's design: https://bug831835.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=703749

Starting in June, the featured add-ons board will select featured complete themes as well, so the updated design will help to showcase them.

Comment 1

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Not really dependent on greater-percona, but I don't want to forget about this.

Comment 2

[Amy Tsay [:amyt]]

Rather than a large graphic for this page (because the content doesn't change as often as background themes), we should keep it as-is but maybe add a small call-out highlighting the featured complete themes. Open to suggestions...

Comment 3

[Bram Pitoyo [:bram]]

What do you think about removing the large graphic and give more prominence to the 4 featured themes by displaying them side by side, horizontally across the box? The previous/next directional button would still be there, but moved to the left and right-side of the box.

This way, each box could have a bigger size (is there an issue with generating a thumbnail of a different size than the size we use today?) and it could also feature the name/author of the complete theme.

Comment 4

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

I actually think that a large graphic would still work, especially with a screenshot from something like https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/nasa-night-launch/

Comment 5

[Amy Tsay [:amyt]]

kmag: the issue is it won't change often enough. Bram, I like the idea, but if we can stay with the current image size, I believe it would be easier to implement.

Comment 6

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

It doesn't change very often for personas either, and it's not as though there aren't plenty to choose from, even if there are fewer of them.

Comment 7

[Bram Pitoyo [:bram]]

Attachment: complete themes feature box - 01

Attached is a mockup that keeps the existing feature box intact, removes the carousel (because there are less complete themes to feature), and adds a title text underneath each theme.

We can feature a multiple of three themes.

Would this be something that’s closer to what comment 2 had in mind?

Comment 8

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

I like it, but I don't think it looks great when it comes after the LW themes landing page. I think it makes more sense to use whatever graphic we're currently using in the smaller promo box there, with a similar carousel.

Comment 9

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

It's fastest to copy the background themes page and adjust for complete themes.

That said, I the preview images are different shapes so either we use the existing squareish previews (which means time to adjust the landing page to those) or we create previews of a different shape (which means time to write/test/run a script) or we use the current shapes in differently shaped holes which is hacky and might be ugly.

Comment 10

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/