{"id":29,"date":"2007-11-06T17:21:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T01:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/basil\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:23:20","slug":"amo-preview-of-coming-attractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/","title":{"rendered":"AMO &#8211; preview of coming attractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the <a href=\"addons.mozilla.org\">addons.mozilla.org<\/a> (AMO) team launched a long-awaited, major rework of the AMO site, called <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Update:Remora\">Project Remora<\/a>. With that behind us, we have been working diligently on <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Update:RequirementsV32\">AMO v3.2<\/a>. The goal is to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simplify site interactions and provide a cleaner look<\/li>\n<li>Based on traffic to the site, about 50% of site visits involve a search for a particular add-on. So, make search prominent and optimize the results.<\/li>\n<li>Most users come to the front page of AMO looking for Firefox add-ons, so demote the multi-application aspect of AMO (while still providing Thunderbird, Sunbird and SeaMonkey users access to their add-ons).<\/li>\n<li>Rework the categories and &#8220;types&#8221; system to provide a simpler install\/search experience<\/li>\n<li>Create a two-tier recommendation system such that we can have add-ons recommended for particular categories (Editor Picks) as well as AMO Front Page (Featured) Add-ons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below are a few mockups of what we have in store.<\/p>\n<p>Our plan is to rollout these changes during early December.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to your feedback and participation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<strong>AMO Start Page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/start.jpg\" title=\"AMO Start Page\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/start.jpg\" alt=\"AMO Start Page\" align=\"middle\" height=\"480\" width=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<strong>Full Listing Page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/fulllist.jpg\" title=\"AMO Listings Page\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/fulllist.jpg\" alt=\"AMO Listings Page\" align=\"middle\" height=\"520\" width=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Details Page<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/details.jpg\" title=\"AMO Details  Page\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/details.jpg\" alt=\"AMO Details  Page\" align=\"middle\" height=\"560\" width=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) team launched a long-awaited, major rework of the AMO site, called Project Remora. With that behind us, we have been working diligently on AMO &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,581],"tags":[575,459],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AMO - preview of coming attractions - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mike Morgan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/\",\"name\":\"AMO - preview of coming attractions - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/start.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-11-07T01:21:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2009-05-06T22:23:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/#\/schema\/person\/373fd84922ef95d8d5171d1a72770d4f\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/start.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~basil\/amo\/start.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"AMO &#8211; 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