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ThemeRoller gallery

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on April 16, 2009 at 8:54:12 am
 

The ThemeRoller gallery tab needs a functionality re-vamp to make it more interactive with voting and user-generated themes. 

 

New Community-driven gallery

The current gallery consists of a hard-coded flat file with a set of TR URLs. It would be nice to transition this into an area where jQuery UI  users can submit themes from ThemeRoller and have the gallery display them by recency, views, rating, etc.

 

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

 

Themes could then be sorted by:

  • Most viewed (most clicks to view > least)
  • Newest (latest date first > oldest)
  • Top rated (highest rating > lowest)

 

The mockup on the right is a very early sketch (yes, the tabsd are wrong) that illustrates how this could look in the new ThemeRoller layout. Each theme could simply have the thumbnal, title, creator and star rating to keep the presentation simple and compact.

Clicking on a theme would refresh the widget preview on the right but keep the user on the gallery tab. Once a theme is clicked, we can use an animation to display the theme actions panel (see lower right gray box with "jQuery UI Default" title). In the theme actions panel, we display:

 

  • Title
  • "by {creator}" - creator name is linked ot their web URL (if provided)
  • Rate this theme label with 5 star rating widget that saves on click via AJAX
  • Download button - creates downloadable zip of theme css and widget sample pages
  • Customize button - flips use over to the "Roll your own" tab pre-filled with selected theme values

 

In order to make this happen, we would need a developer who has the time to build out this functionality. Filament Group can provide all the front end design and coding, but we need a developer to built out the back end and database.

 

 

 

Feel free to keep adding new ideas!

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