{"id":30,"date":"2007-11-20T08:40:02","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T16:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/basil\/2007\/11\/20\/amo-design-update-now-with-all-mozilla-products\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T22:23:37","slug":"amo-design-update-now-with-all-mozilla-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/20\/amo-design-update-now-with-all-mozilla-products\/","title":{"rendered":"AMO Design Update (now with all Mozilla products)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/basil\/2007\/11\/06\/amo-preview-of-coming-attractions\/\">my last post<\/a>, I outlined some the design changes we&#8217;re planning for AMO. \u00a0A number of commenters raised the issue that the design could lead to non-Firefox applications being under-represented on the site &#8212; definitely not something we want to do. \u00a0So, we went back to the drawing board and came up with what we believe to be a reasonable balance between streamlining the basic use case &#8212; a Firefox user grabbing an add-on &#8212; and still showcasing the other applications in the Mozilla community. \u00a0The mockups appear below. \u00a0There are three major changes represented here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed the &#8220;global header&#8221; that currently graces most mozilla.com properties to help give AMO an identity, additional simplicity and a logical navigation structure<\/li>\n<li>Reduced the overall height of the header area which means that you get to the content\/meat quicker<\/li>\n<li>Added an application selector to the &#8220;main page&#8221; in a prominent position on the page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This raised the question of what are the Mozilla products that should be supported by AMO. Given that AMO is a Mozilla project resource meant to support the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/\">Mozilla project&#8217;s official products\/applications<\/a> &#8211; the list of apps include Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Camino and Sunbird exclusively. (Currently, Camino does not natively include add-ons capabilities or an add-ons manager so it&#8217;s not listed). It is expected that as <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/schrep\/archives\/2007\/10\/mozilla_and_mobile.html\">Mozilla&#8217;s mobile efforts<\/a> bear fruit that mobile-related add-ons would be supported as well.<\/p>\n<p>The default entry point advertised by Mozilla application are the AMO subsites: <a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/thunderbird\">Thunderbird<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/seamonkey\">SeaMonkey<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/sunbird\">Sunbird<\/a>. This is where the application selector would appear. Currently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\">AMO top level page<\/a> (http:\/\/addons.mozilla.org) redirects to a localized Firefox subsite as the majority of users are installing Firefox add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>I think of AMO as a hosting service supporting multiple apps with a shared backend (servers, mirror network, user database, reviews and discussion infrastructure and so forth.) I&#8217;ve argued for &#8220;segregation&#8221; in order for each app to provide (possibly) unique user experiences using app-specific AMO skins\/theme, add-on installation options, etc. Our current &#8220;subsite&#8221; structure essentially offer this today, e.g. categories are app-specific and the recommended add-ons list is unique. I would expect this to continue and would love to hear feedback about unique needs of Mozilla apps so that we can work it into future AMO revisions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~madhava\/files\/amo\/2007-11-19\/app_switcher1.png\" alt=\"App Selector (closed)\" height=\"519\" width=\"721\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~madhava\/files\/amo\/2007-11-19\/app_switcher2.png\" alt=\"App Selector (open)\" height=\"512\" width=\"721\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.com\/~madhava\/files\/amo\/2007-11-19\/seamonkey_header.png\" alt=\"SeaMonkey header\" height=\"93\" width=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Special Thanks to Madhava Enros and Henry Brown for the overall design and mockups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last post, I outlined some the design changes we&#8217;re planning for AMO. \u00a0A number of commenters raised the issue that the design could lead to non-Firefox applications being &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2007\/11\/20\/amo-design-update-now-with-all-mozilla-products\/\">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":[581,227],"tags":[575,278875],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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