I can't see this "pop-up" in either Firefox 3 or IE 6. I've turned off the pop-up blocker. Being in Australia, I've looked at both google.com.au and google.com. Maybe I'm using the wrong browser/ version, or maybe it hasn't been turned on for Australia. Or maybe my security/privacy software is blocking it somewhere.
BUT-- I ACCIDENTALLY found a link to "top iGoogle developers". No, it's not on the main directory page where you'd expect such a useful link to be. You have to click on a developer's link on the right hand side of the listing - ANY developer's name will do - and voila! On the developer's page, below the developer's profile, is a nice little link that says "See list of top iGoogle developers". Ordinary users would never find it. I think I might have seen it before, but when I started looking for it again I couldn't remember where it was! Did anyone else know that was there? How long has it been there? What was Google's rationale for burying it there? They're probably sitting back saying "What's all the fuss, we've got a link to top developers?", while people looking for it can't find it. There is no suggestion what criteria have been used to determine "top developers", but it obviously takes into account gadgets as well as themes, since some of the developers in the listting have no themes at all. But at least the recognized quality theme developers seem to appear in the first few pages. Google, oh Google ... how about putting this link on the main directory page, and solve all our problems? Please? On May 1, 5:18 am, "Don Dixon, www.igooglethemes.net" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have both IE and Firefox installed. This morning this is a new pop > up that shows miniature photos with 10 themes per page. (Does not > show in Firefox). They load faster but unfortunately there is still > no organization of themes. With the flood of themes, the only thing > people can do at this point to find themes is to search for themes by > putting a designer's name in the search box. It's either that, or go > through all the garbage. The "Hottest Category" is not working > properly. (I have a theme with 20,000 + users within the last 3-4 > months and it doesn't even show in the "hottest" category, while > themes I did a year ago with 2,300 users do show). Now, with this new > approach, the search bar is not there for users to search. They now > have to click on "other options to get to the search bar. If this is > what Google meant when they said they were looking for a way to make > themes "more discoverable", I don't think this is the answer. This is > not a bad approach, but there needs to be something done about the > flooding of poor quality themes and how the library is organized. I > don't get it. It's pretty obvious that the theme section is a > disaster. The question is: Will they do something about it before > most get so ticked off they'll never come back? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Themes API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-themes-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
