The ThemeRoller gallery tab needs a a re-vamp to make it more interactive with voting an duser-generated themes. All existing themes need to be updated to work with the additional theme levers added and we want to add a new new presets too.
New gallery design
The current gallery consists of a hard-coded flat file with a set of TR URLs which are loaded into a series of small iframes. The nice thing is the themes are interactive but the tab takes a long time to load. In the next release, we woudl really like to create a more dynamic, community-powered theme gallery. Each saved theme would have the following attributes:
- Server-generated thumbnail for each theme
- Title (ex. "South Street")
- Name of creator: optional, default to "Unknown" if left blank (Ex. "John Doe")
- Web URL of creator, use as link for creator name: optional do not link name if left blank (Ex. www.foo.com)
- Average star rating of theme (1-5 stars) and total count of votes
- Date added (Ex. "November 22, 2008")
- ThemeRoller URL
Theme could then be sorted by:
- Top rated (highest rating > lowest)
- Newest (latest date first > oldest)
- Most viewed (most clicks to view > least)
New Themeroller themes need to be designed
We've heard that the default theme is too gray and not punchy enough in ThemeRoller. We need to find a default theme that is slick but not too wacky that it won't fit in with a user's application so we need to walk a fine line. Anyway, here are two more themes to consider, both use our our top-secret rounded corner parameter (FF&Safari only).
Here is a light theme with an orange on state:
[ UI Orange glass ]
Or a more corporate blue theme that feels a bit like Vista:
[ Corporate blue ]
And a cool dark with green theme with the wave texture:
[ Dark wave ]
Dark wave with blue:
[Cool wave]
Orange on state with warm gray/beige off, similar to orange glass but warmer
[ Warm orange ]
Feel free to keep adding new ideas!
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