Re-think Toolkit Home Page Design

[greensteph]

How can we make this page look more seamless with the site as a whole?

• Why do we include the 3 featured sections in the Toolkit nav? (we don't do this for the main home page)

• Are the links in the secondary footer still relevant/necessary? (Credits, Accessibility, About)

• Do we still need the large "Follow us on Twitter" section?

• Does the "Visit CitizenScience.gov to also learn about a catalog of projects and communities to join!" feel disjointed in it's reference to CitSci as if it's not this site? How can we re-write this?

• Does it make sense to carry the main nav and logo from the home page throughout the entire site?

• How can incorporate the Toolkit logo in a relevant but less overbearing way? Do we still need it? Are we just using it because we have it?

[greensteph]

Should we think about using the USWDS Big Footer to unify navigation across the main, toolkit, catalog, and community areas?

[greensteph]

Proposed new site-wide navigation:

Home, About, Blog, Catalog, Toolkit, Community *also re-order the main home page sections to match the nav order

Toolkit Sub-links-->Overview, Get Started, Case Studies, Resources, Law & Policy

Proposed: change How To to Get Started in the nav and site-wide

Catalog Sub-Links-->View Projects, Add or Edit a Project

_Proposed: move Catalog About nav item content to main Catalog page

[greensteph]

Possible new Toolkit "Home" page layout:

• [x] Underneath the 3 existing featured content boxes -->move the short Toolkit "About The Toolkit" text from the Communities area

• [x] Replace Follow us on Twitter..... section on the Toolkit home page with a section titled "Acknowledgements" use the 3rd About content section paragraph

• [x] Use this content to link out to the About & Credits toolkit content that is currently linked in the footer.

• [x] Change How To Step by Step page title to Basic Steps for Your Project Planning

• [x] Change How To Step by Step on Toolkit Home page to Getting Started

• [x] Remove About Catalog page and nav item.

• [x] Add blurb to Catalog home page: "Projects listed in the catalog are validated by federal employees" -small, underneath the page title

• [x] Remove Follow us on Twitter..... section on Home page

[greensteph]

• [x] Move the Accessibility item to the main footer. Switch out that link to go to the main GSA a11y policy.

• [x] Remove the secondary footer from all Toolkit pages.

• [x] Remove the Home page link from the Nav

• [x] Make About a drop-down with Overview, Community & Blog (play with the ordering)

• [x] Add Search CitizenScience.gov placeholder text in Search box

• [ ] Figure out how to incorporate Catalog and Toolkit logo's into the pages

• [x] Change credits page title to Acknowledgments

• [x] Look at typeface for New Toolkit Overview page sections - is it the right typeface, if Yes, make larger

• [x] Look at a different color for the drop-down menu items and background

[greensteph]

Closed by #270