Hi people,

it was some time since I half-heartedly offered to create a mockup for the Mozilla.org timeline page, something, which was long-desired. I was, until this stage, undergoing major struggle and can feel that I’m not completely over it But here it is: My first draft of a new timeline page. I tried to fit the design to the Mozilla colors and to make it smooth, however, there are still some parts that needs to be improved. But, we’ll see

The original timeline can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/about/timeline.html

My mockups can be found here and here.

This is not yet complete (of course) and there are still some things to improve:

• I have to say that I need to improve the parchment background which does not look very healthy
• I need to add the Major Software releases to the timeline page

A note to my decisions:

I used the Mozilla star, as a star is often associated with “Hall of fame”, “heaven” and “highlights”, the Mozilla history is kind of both

I used the old parchment, because you could imagine a person from the future finding this old parchment and thinking about how it all began with Mozilla.

Anyway, I’m waiting for your feedback / criticism! Just add comments to this blog post.

Thanks in advance,

Tobbi!

as I pointed out in my last blog post, I’m working on the Mozilla UK community site (among many other things), which is my first Mozilla website project. We worked for months, getting a first version of MozUK online. We set up some sites, which (we think) help  users as well as contributors (new and those already being active).

However, as our userbase and page views rise, we need to revise the whole site even more, to give users an optimal experience. And at that point, I want something from you, it’s not much, only a small thing: Your opinion.

Tell us what you think about Mozilla UK, and especially, how we could improve it!

We’ll take your feedback seriously.

Here are some criteria, that might help you evaluate our site:

• What content do you like most?
• What content don’t you like so much or don’t you find appropriate?
• What do you think about the theme?
• If you could, what would you like to add?

So, after you’ve read this post, please do us a favor and answer the feedback poll we’ve integrated into the site. You help us improve the quality of the site dramatically and push the whole project into the right direction.

Thanks for reading!

This is the first post on my brand new blog. And the first thing I wanted to tell you, is: Good find! You managed to find this specific blog together with this specific post out of millions of blogs all around the world

Some words about me and my contributions in the Mozilla world:

I’m familiar with many different projects, and do multiple contributions.This includes:

• SUMO – answering user’s questions on the forum and in LiveChat, as well as translating KB articles into my native language German and improving existing KB articles
• QA  – writing automated Mozmill testcases (I really have to improve my skills there), running Litmus testcases etc.
• WebQA – automating existing testcases using the Selenium framework, testing websites using Litmus, especially focused on SUMO (support.mozilla.com) and AMO (addons.mozilla.org)
• Administrating the Mozilla UK website project together with TMZ and Leo.
• (when I have time and feel up to it) minor contributions to SUMOdev, this includes writing small (and when I say small I mean tiny) patches for the SUMO TikiWiki etc.

Anyway, if you have any more questions, you can always contact me via email under tobbi (at) mozilla-uk.org, or just add a comment to this blog post.

I feel like adding more details about these contributions in the future, so stay tuned!

– Tobbi

P.S.: If there’s anyone who doesn’t know: All words in the title are greetings, spoken in different parts of the world: Howdy in Southern USA, Aloha is  the Hawaiian language and Moin in Northern Germany