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Canada.ca theme - A reference implementation of the Canada.ca Content and Information Architecture Specification, the Canada.ca Content Style Guide and the Canada.ca Design System
https://wet-boew.github.io/GCWeb/
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Clarity on language selection/splash page #1829

Open DMcDona opened 3 years ago

DMcDona commented 3 years ago

Hi all, sorry if this isn't the best place to ask this. Just wondering what the current direction is for splash pages/language selection screens with GCWeb theme.

It seems that there are a few different ways departments/agencies are implementing them.

Transport Canada has the split/right alignment outlined in the Technical Specifications for the web and mobile presence. But this causes layout issues with mobile and tablet. https://tc.canada.ca/

Global Affairs Canada has gone with a stacked and an hr. https://www.international.gc.ca/

While others are using the department/agency identifier instead of the Government of Canada wordmark. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/ https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/

And others are not adding in the department/agency at all: https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/

Just wondering which is the "ideal"?

Also, is the direction still for the first official language to be based on the location from where the website is managed?

Thanks so much!

auxonic commented 3 years ago

Good question.. I've just been winging it and mostly sticking to what we had before (side by side). The Druapl 8/9 WxT build doesn't even include the language slection page. TC appears to be using static HTML for it and I built a simple implementation of what's in the GCWeb distribution but it conflicts with some other homepage/redirect related features.

My preference would be to drop it entirely (like https://digital.canada.ca/ and some others do). That seems modern and is intuitive especially for sites that use seperate english and french domains.