GSP/ECR 2024 Website updates - Menu navigation changes

[ssarrafan]

• [x] Change the following top level menu navigation titles:

1. About > About Us
2. Community > Partner with Us
3. Resources > News & Impact

For each of the top-level titles, the drop down items are as follows:

• [x] About Us

  1. Our Story
  2. Team
  3. Advisory
  4. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  5. Data Use Policy
  6. Contact Us

• [x] Products

  1. Data Portal
  2. Submission Portal
  3. NMDC EDGE

• [x] Resources

  1. Data
  2. Bioinformatics Workflows
  3. GitHub (direct link to https://github.com/microbiomedata)
  4. Documentation
  5. Data Management

• [x] Partner with Us

  1. Community
  2. Ambassadors
  3. Champions
  4. User Research
  5. Events

• [x] News & Impact

  1. Press Room
  2. Newsletters
  3. Annual Reports
  4. Publications

[shreddd]

What does the "Data" link point to under Resources? If this is the data portal then we already have it under products.

[eecavanna]

I'm working on this now.

[eecavanna]

Before I make changes to the menu, here's a composition of screenshots showing its initial state:

[eecavanna]

Here's what the new top-level menu items look like:

[eecavanna]

Here's what I did to the "About Us" menu:

• Added a menu item labeled "Our Story" that links to https://microbiomedata.org/about/
  • (That is the same page the "About Us" top-level item links to)
• Updated the menu item labeled "IDEA Strategic Plan" to be labeled "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"
• Removed the menu item labeled "Code of Conduct"
  • (The footer of the website has a link to the Code of Conduct)
• Removed the menu item labeled "FAIR"
• Removed the menu item labeled "Metadata"
• Removed the menu item labeled "Workflows"
• Added a menu item labeled "Contact Us" that links to https://microbiomedata.org/contact/

Here's a screenshot of the resulting menu (when viewing the "Our Story" page):

[eecavanna]

I did not make any changes to the "Products" menu.

[eecavanna]

What does the "Data" link point to under Resources?

I have the same question. @ssarrafan and @jkelliher-github, do either of you know?

One of the changes I made to the "About Us" menu as part of this ticket was that I removed the menu item labeled "Metadata" from the "About" menu. I didn't write down where that menu item pointed (I can spin up an old backup of the website locally to check, but I won't do that if not necessary). I wonder whether the page that menu item pointed to, is the page they had in mind for this new "Data" menu item.

[eecavanna]

Here's what I did to the "Resources" menu (after creating it):

• Added a menu item labeled "Bioinformatics Workflows" that links to https://microbiomedata.org/workflows/
• Added a menu item labeled "GitHub" that links to https://github.com/microbiomedata
• Added a menu item labeled "Documentation" that links to https://nmdc-documentation.readthedocs.io/
• Added a menu item labeled "Data Management" that links to https://microbiomedata.org/data-management/

Here's what it looks like now:

~⚠️ TODO: Add a menu item labeled "Data", once I know what people want it to link to.~ DONE

[eecavanna]

Here's what I did to the "Partner with Us" menu (after renaming it from "Community"):

• Added a menu item labeled "Community" that links to https://microbiomedata.org/community/
  • (That is the same page the "Partner with Us" top-level item links to)
• Removed the menu item labeled "NMDC Snapshots"
• Removed the menu item labeled "Community Conversations"
• Updated the menu item labeled "News and Events" to be labeled "Events"

Here's what it looks like now:

[eecavanna]

Here's what I did to the "News & Impact" menu (after renaming it from "Resources"):

• Removed the menu item labeled "Data Management"
• Updated the menu item labeled "Media Materials" to be labeled "Press Room"
  • Then, moved that "Press Room" menu item to the top of the menu

Here's what it looks like now:

⚠️ TODO: Add a menu item labeled "Newsletters" that people can click on to access past NMDC newsletters. I don't know how I can do that yet.

[eecavanna]

Status summary

I made all the changes listed in the Issue description; except those listed below:

• [x] I did not add a menu item labeled "Data" to the "Resources" menu. That's because I don't know yet what anyone wants it to link to.
• [ ] I did not add a menu item named "Newsletters" to the "News & Impact" menu. That's because I don't know yet how people can access a list of previous NMDC newsletters.

[ssarrafan]

@eecavanna what kind of help do you need?
I'm moving this to the next sprint as it appears to be active

@emileyfadrosh FYI

[eecavanna]

The only remaining question I have is:

The PR description lists the following menu items:

1. Partner with us > Events
2. News & Impact > Newsletters

The "Events" menu item links to https://microbiomedata.org/events/. That is the page where I had been planning to add a section that contains links to past newsletters. That plan might have been a result of me making an incorrect assumption at some point.

👉 What do you want the "Newsletters" menu item to link to?

P.S. As a reminder, people that visit https://microbiomedata.org/news/ get automatically redirected to https://microbiomedata.org/events/; but I could disable/change that.

[emileyfadrosh]

Sorry for the confusion!

1. Partner with us > Events: I believe this was meant to be a new page where we would maintain a calendar of upcoming events, but this has not been created. I can create a placeholder page, @jkelliher-github would that be OK? It should not link to the current events page since those are previous blog posts (https://microbiomedata.org/events/)
2. News & Impact > Newsletters: This would be a new page with the mailchimp postings. I think this was what you had in your development environment?
3. News & Impact > Press Room: this should link to https://microbiomedata.org/events/ and not https://microbiomedata.org/media/

[eecavanna]

It's all good. Thanks! Here are my comments:

1. Partner with us > Events: I have removed the menu item for now. Once the page you want it to point to exists, I'll recreate the menu item and link it to that page.
2. News & Impact > Newsletters: Ah, gotcha! I had put it on the "Events" (a.k.a. "News") page (I thought this other GitHub Issue—which refers to removing the Twitter widget, adding the Instagram widget, and making the newsletters accessible—was all about that "Events" page). I'll create a new page called "Newsletters" that contains the Mailchimp widget plus the "sign up" form at the bottom of the page. I'll send you a screenshot once it exists in my development environment (sometime next sprint).
3. News & Impact > Press Room: I fixed this in production just now. The menu item now links to https://microbiomedata.org/events/.

[eecavanna]

Hi @emileyfadrosh and @jkelliher-github, I'm trying to tie up loose ends related to the website updates. For item 1 above, are either of you planning to create that page this Thursday or Friday?

If not (which is OK with me), I think I'll create a separate ticket—specific to that task—and then close this one once I finish item 2.

[emileyfadrosh]

Hi @eecavanna, sorry about that! I just created a draft here: https://microbiomedata.org/newsletters/

I can add more to it afterwards, will that work for you?

[eecavanna]

Hi @emileyfadrosh, thanks for creating that page for item 2. I added the newsletter archive and the sign-up form to the page. Here's what the result (which is currently live) looks like.

• I'll file an issue about that misaligned "Sign up for updates" button.

I can add more to it afterwards, will that work for you?

Yes, you can continue to edit the page. As long as the "Newsletter Archive" and "Subscribe" blocks remain in the page's layout (on the "Edit page" page), the respective sections will appear on the user-facing page.

I consider item 2 to be done at this point.

Next steps (from my perspective):

• [x] I will create a ticket for item 1. I'll assign it to you and jkelliher for starters.
• [x] I will create a ticket for adding a "Newsletters" menu item to "News & Impact" section of the top navigation bar, as originally specified in this ticket. Although the destination page now exists, I didn't want to add the menu item until I confirmed with you that you're OK with me adding it already.
• [x] I will close this ticket.