MDN/Archives/Development/Redesign/Testing

MDN is undergoing a major redesign, with improved design, layout, page customization options and navigation. To ensure that the redesign is the best that it can be, we have made the new design available to anyone who would like to help with beta testing.

Notes and information

New features — look out for are as follows:

• The main difference you'll notice is that the new theme. It is aimed at being more easily red and to look more professionnal. Among the differences you'll notice:
  • The consistent usage of the same font (Open Sans) instead of the mix of fonts we had before. Only code, and therefore interfaces, methods, and properties, are using a fixed-width font.
  • Numerous pages have now a quick links columns aimed at simplifying the navigation.
• Certain pages have been converted into Zones, which are basically landing pages for specific focus topics like projects or tasks (Firefox, Firefox OS, Building Apps.) These have a distinct look and feel, and an integrated zone menu that persists between all the pages that under the zone in the document hierarchy. Examples:
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps

How you can help

Once the redesign is enabled, we would love you to go around the site and have a look at everything, as well as trying out some edits and other site contributions. Please let us know exactly how the site is working, what is breaking, and what you think needs improvement. Try the following:

• Reading a page, and using the web site to get relevant info.
• Editing a page.
• Looking at a page that has large code samples on it, or large images, or embedded videos.
• Editing a macro, if you have the right to do so.

To give us feedback, please use the following:

• The #devmo IRC channel on Mozilla's [| IRC]
• The dev-mdc e-mail list: [1]
• Bugzilla form