Emojar Homepage Redesign — Everything in One Place 🏠

We just shipped a new homepage for Emojar. The goal: any visitor should be able to see exactly what Emojar does and where everything is — without needing to dig through the navigation.

Here is what changed and why.

What was wrong with the old layout

The previous homepage was functional but buried too much. The search bar — the most important thing on the site — appeared below a games strip and a tools strip. First-time visitors had to scroll past features they had never heard of before reaching the reason they came: finding and copying an emoji.

The feature cards that followed the search were long, generic, and text-heavy. Worse, they only showed 6 of the 10 available games and hid the 10 emoji categories inside a hard-to-scan list of pill links.

What changed

1. Hero first

The page now opens with a short stats strip (3,790 emojis · 10 categories · 10 games · 2 tools · Free forever) followed by a clear headline and one-line summary. This sets the context before the user interacts with anything.

2. Search front and centre

The search bar now appears immediately below the hero — not buried after feature cards. The category pills sit directly below it for quick navigation to a specific group.

3. All 10 games, not 6

The previous homepage showed 6 games in a horizontal strip. The new layout shows all 10 in a 2×5 colour-coded grid, each tile with the game name and a one-line description. Every game is one tap away.

| Game | What it is | |---|---| | ⭕ XO | Tic-Tac-Toe with custom emoji pieces | | 🐍 Snake | Guide your emoji snake to eat fruit | | 💣 Minesweeper | Uncover tiles, flag the mines | | 🪤 Hangman | Guess emoji Unicode names | | 🫧 Bubble Shooter | Pop matching emoji bubbles | | 🚩 Guess the Flag | Match flag emoji to country | | 🧩 Emoji Puzzle | Memory match with emoji cards | | ⏳ Older or Newer | Guess which emoji came first | | 🐾 Guess the Animal | Name the animal emoji | | 🎯 Odd One Out | Spot the emoji that does not belong |

4. All 10 categories with colour coding

Categories are now displayed as a 5-column grid of colour-coded tiles, each showing the category name, an icon, and the exact emoji count. This makes it easy to find the right section without reading dense text.

5. Emoji Collections teaser

The Holiday & Event Collections page — 15 curated emoji packs for major events throughout the year — now has a dedicated banner on the homepage. Previously it was not linked from the homepage at all.

6. Browse shortcuts

Three quick-access cards for alternate browse modes: A–Z sorted, Detail view (with names and metadata inline), and the Letter-Shaped Emojis table.

7. Redesigned blog section

The blog section now uses card-style post tiles with emoji icons, colour-coded tags, and the post title. The previous layout embedded blog posts inside a generic feature card, making them easy to miss.

What did not change

• The search still uses Fuse.js with the same 0.3 threshold
• Copy to clipboard works identically — one tap, toast confirmation
• The emoji grid uses the same SmallEmojiCard components
• All routes and URLs are unchanged

The new homepage is live at emojar.com. If you notice anything that should be improved, use the contact form.