The new mozilla.org home page is being staged and I wanted to give people a chance to test it before we go live. Feel free to post comments here or on the wiki page listing known issues.
After this we will bring this new design to the other pages on the site. That’s what we’ve been working on since we wrapped up the home page design in early August.
There are so many different page layouts on the site (12 years of organic growth will do that) that it took a long time to fit those into a common template that was flexible enough to handle a range of variations.
I’m happy with what we’ve come up with and think it presents content in a clean and attractive way. For example, see the mockup of the new Mission page. I’ll post again when these new pages go live.
davidwboswell 
1) The right aligned header looks weird to me, the first thing I thought was that the page was now wider and it was not centered then I tried full screen mode and noticed the header expands to the right
2) Firefox 4 beta, Linux (Fedora), when selecting the “More projects” option a scrollbar appears, Screenshot
Using Firefox 4.0b6 on Mandriva Linux Cooker, when the site loads I see all three of the ads for FF, TB and the other projects. Furthermore, after they are all in one box, they seem to change automatically, causing an evil animation, and even after I click a specific tab in the ad box, it keep rotating, and it’s annoying. Otherwise, looks fine.
BTW, entering text in this textbox is incredibly slow in this textarea. Maybe there’s some obtrusive JavaScript.
Hi David,
why didn’t you reply to my comment? Please do.
Regards,
— Shlomi Fish
Thanks for your feedback. If you check out the list of known issues, we have the points you mentioned about the featured area listed there.
About entering text in the textbox for this blog, that may be a WordPress issue. It works fine for me, fwiw.
1. Love the new shorter header.
2. Things seem unbalanced because the header and footer stretch to fit the whole page width, but the main content does not.
Am I alone in not understanding the difference between mozilla.org and mozilla.com?
Mozilla.com isn’t even mentioned on the .org community map but both home pages are similar in content.
No, you’re not alone in not seeing much difference between mozilla.org and mozilla.com. To reduce the confusion, we’ve been working on making changes to Mozilla’s sites and that will include merging mozilla.com and mozilla.org so there won’t be two different, but very similiar, top-level Mozilla sites. More about this here:
http://www.intothefuzz.com/2010/02/10/upcoming-brown-bag-rethinking-the-mozilla-web-universe/
i already try mozilla.org, but i can’t access the whole site….??? please help. thanks
If you are still having problems accessing mozilla.org, please let me know and I can look into it. There may have been a temporary server problem earlier.