Australia's Species page - make clearer search for all species or browse iconic

[RobinaSanderson]

As a user searching for Australian species I want to clearly see that I can search for across many thousand species or browse relatively few iconic species So that I know the ALA site is a comprehensive listing of Australian species but i can quickly get to well known Australian species

Requirements:

1. Change the heading for the search to:

Search XXXX species

• where XXXX is the number of species currently with species pages in ALA
  2. Add the following text after the search box: Search the thousands of species with information in the ALA.
  3. Add a dividing line between the search and browse sections
  4. Add the following text after the "Browse iconic Australian species" heading The ALA is home to thousands of Australian organisms. Here’s just a small sample of some iconic Australian species found in the ALA.

Note: if it is decided to include subspecies in the number given on the home page, the number given on this page should be the same.

[aatteia]

Attached is a mock up of the new Australian Species page.

Nick is going to bring the page in line with the new site design as we both feel it will be one of the first pages that users will hit and keeping the navigation and footer elements consistent will be important.

We are bringing the side navigation in line with the species search nav so that the user will have a streamlined experience. The species stats are in the subject-subtitle and the secondary h3 title and text give the page additional context and provide a link for users to browse the the full species.

[aatteia]

We will also change the name of the page to be 'Australian popular species'.

[RobinaSanderson]

Hi @aatteia - thanks for the mockup.

Hi @HannahScott1 - please check this out.

[matthewandrews]

@nickdos FYI the breadcrumb bar will not be part of the new BS2 header include.

[aatteia]

Updated page intro and page name:

[matthewandrews]

I've updated WordPress to use "Australian iconic species" as the link text, and updated the panel on the home page:

[aatteia]

*400,000

[nickdos]

Note 400,000 although technically correct (we have names for records from all over the world) is a an overestimation of the number of names in Australia. John thinks people will people will confuse these things (assume it is just Australia) so he wants that figure to be for Australian names. This number is more like 100,000 but I need to calculate this properly (not trivial).

[charvolant]

Of the 400,000-odd species, we should also go only for accepted names (~250k) as opposed to synonyms, misapplied, excluded, etc. (the rest)

[matthewandrews]

This is a good improvement. I suggest a further improvement: I imagine it might be a bit disorienting to hit the "search over 100,000 species in the ALA" link and be dropped straight into the http://bie.ala.org.au/search?q=&fq=idxtype:%22TAXON%22 results page. I'd suggest either that the link go to the search form at https://bie.ala.org.au/ or that we embed a search form right on the iconic page.

[aatteia]

I agree and think this is a good idea. To further add to this, I think more emphasis on the search bar needs to be given. Let's make it super fat.

[nickdos]

@aatteia could you mock something up?

[aatteia]

Sure can @nickdos. Here is a little something that I prepared earlier.

[aatteia]

We may want to add a search button. Maybe.