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I agree - this is better than most sites for browsing themes. However, I still find it hard to get a feel for a theme's style when a giant cover image makes up
by dperfect 10y ago
I agree - this is better than most sites for browsing themes. However, I still find it hard to get a feel for a theme's style when a giant cover image makes up 90% of a screenshot for a theme. I understand that most modern themes are image-heavy (especially on the home page), and full-page thumbnails are a good way to see the high-level layout characteristics of a theme, but I'm often more on the lookout for good typography, navigational elements, icons, etc.
Not sure about the best solution for that, but it makes me think there's probably a better way to highlight both the high-level and low-level details of a theme at a glance.
- danialtz 10y agoGood point. You can click on the screenshot again for full resolution and back.
- dperfect 10y agoYeah - that works. I was more thinking of something in the main list view (possibly a closeup thumbnail or two of some notable visual details) to make those details more apparent when scrolling through many themes, but the click-to-zoom/lightbox certainly fills the need in a better way than many other sites do. Either way, the site looks really nice - good job!
- danialtz 10y agoWe have already the possibility of intervening automated algorithms and adding custom screenshots, so if we allow theme authors to claim their themes they can add those close-ups themselves, which would be an obvious next step. However, today this is technically challenging problem since the screenshots are not made manually, but with supervised algorithms. I dream about a day that we can pinpoint visually which area of the image are visually interesting/aesthetic to make a close-up, utilizing Neural Networks better. We need Deepmind for themes, the way google has it for their Photos.