Consider updating page header elements

[ggeisler]

This is a story ticket that will point to two more specific, related tickets:

• 2315 - Replace Start over and Back to search buttons with page breadcrumbs

• 2316 - Move show page tools to page header area

These are independent suggestions, but both involve the page header area and together they would provide a cleaner, more streamlined look to the Blacklight results and show pages. They are relatively significant changes so perhaps could be implemented as options, I'm not sure.

As an overview, here's a current Blacklight show page, with the "A" and "B" callouts indicating the areas my suggestions apply to:

And here's a mockup of the show page that incorporates the suggestions I'll make in the two specific tickets:

[jcoyne]

I'm not real keen that this design duplicates the title in the breadcrumb and then has a large title directly below. I think this would run into trouble with items that have long titles. e.g.: "Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band, Fiesta Bowl, Stanford vs. Oklahoma State football game, Glendale, Arizona, January 2, 2012: Glendale (Ariz.), 2012-01-02"

[ggeisler]

I'm not real keen that this design duplicates the title in the breadcrumb and then has a large title directly below.

I didn't show it in the mockups but we'd truncate long titles as necessary. Just as we already do in Exhibits:

I'm not real keen that this design duplicates the title in the breadcrumb and then has a large title directly below.

I think it just helps reinforce to the user where they are in the site, which is a big part of what breadcrumbs are intended to do. When you consistently show breadcrumbs in the same location throughout the site, the user can refer to or use them when needed, and otherwise ignore them.