<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Bryan Hadaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com" target="_blank">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>One idea that might work is to instead of having "Featured" themes be so prominent and everything else, simple text link lists, there could be 4 columns (floated divs) side-by-side, equal in size to one another, all with screenshots:<br>
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<br></div>Featured | Popular | New | Updated<br><br></div>That way, both featured themes and naturally popular themes would share the real estate and exposure. But, if I remember correctly, it might be a difficulty of it being dynamic and not static, which would need to manually be managed?<br>
</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Any redesign would involve a lot of code change, so don't expect it soon-ish. :)</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">But I have been thinking about it and comparing a few things I've seen elsewhere.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">- The first thing to look at is along the lines of the WordPress Appearance menu. It's responsive which is nice, but it doesn't give a lot of information. But the popup on click is kinda neat: <a href="https://cloudup.com/cQfOa8x383W">https://cloudup.com/cQfOa8x383W</a></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">- Then I looked at WordPress.com's version of same. Looks like they added a menu bar at the top for quick access, which has merit: <a href="https://cloudup.com/ckcBfBBtism">https://cloudup.com/ckcBfBBtism</a></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I looked at a lot of other theme sites too, and I found one thing: Most theme sites are just fugly, man. Like, wow: <a href="http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress">http://themeforest.net/category/wordpress</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">- So I looked elsewhere for places where lots of things were shown. At things like YouTube's channel design. A bit crowded, certainly, but the horizontal scrolling on the playlists is interesting: <a href="https://cloudup.com/cQmy8wknAnN">https://cloudup.com/cQmy8wknAnN</a> </div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The playlists there are especially interesting because they made me think of the Favorites for plugins. A list of somebody's favorite themes might be an idea to display something a bit different.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">- I tried a Vimeo channel too. Not a lot of surprise here: <a href="http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/videos">http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/videos</a></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">- Flickr likes to squeeze a lot of images on the page. Not surprising for photos though. Their "sets" and "collections" pages are much less interesting visually though: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/otto42/sets/72157622494034739/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/otto42/sets/72157622494034739/</a></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I dunno what the right way is. These are just some things I looked at for ideas.<div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>-Otto</div><div><br></div></div>
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