Homepage Redesign

[rhysforyou]

On the current homepage, you can only see five themes per page, with only two or three of those above the fold. I'd like to redesign this to fit more themes on a page and place more emphasis on the theme's screenshot.

The idea is to display the themes' thumbnails in a grid arrangement, with further information appearing when the user hovers their mouse cursor over the thumbnail. I'll put together a design for this tonight, but I wanted to get feedback first.

[fusion94]

I think that's a wonderful idea, it would also be nice to perhaps sort by tags and to have like a prominent featured theme box.

thoughts?

[fusion94]

also be sure to check out the new Rakefile system.

[rhysforyou]

Yeah I'd love to have tag filtering, but I'm not sure we can actually do that with Jekyll, at least not without plugins.

[ciarand]

You might be able to do it just by having a "view" that creates a big ol' array of JSON objects representing each theme, its tags, and a URL to it. Then the sorting can happen client-side.

[rhysforyou]

Yeah I was thinking of doing something like that, I'll experiment with it a bit.