Revised Universal Navigation Notes
- Christine Golus
Propose a revised navigation that provides all ACCESS users links to information they most often need and use.
Current navigation | Proposed navigation |
|---|---|
Allocations Home icon | Allocations |
Allocations
Recommend keeping link as is. This currently goes to the Allocations home page.
Allocations pages are among the most visited by users
The SCX3 review confirmed that users who know what Allocations are go directly to this menu item
For users who don’t know what Allocations are they will learn about this term in the Get Started pages
Resources
User want to quickly know what resources are available to them through ACCESS
This will link to the Resources Catalog published by the Allocations team: https://allocations.access-ci.org/resources
NOTE: There is currently another resource catalog published on the Operations website: https://operations.access-ci.org/resources/access-allocated (should this be removed TBD?)
Training
Since ACCESS is primarily “self-serve” users need to quickly find training that will get them up to speed on using the ecosystem
Support
A “HELP” or “SUPPORT” link is a commonly understood term. Recommend keeping the Support link that goes to Support home: https://support.access-ci.org/ or consider linking to knowledge base overview https://support.access-ci.org/knowledge-base/overview
The Knowledge Base overview page is an easy to digest overview of all types of ACCESS support from documentation to
News
Elevate the ACCESS news stories to top navigation vs. hiding the news within the hamburger menu. https://access-ci.org/news/
The SGX3 review noted that many users did not know to open the hamburger menu
About
Elevate the About ACCESS link to top navigation vs. hiding the news within the hamburger menu.
https://access-ci.org/about/Links to the About have been included on the home page. With the new proposed home page design the about link will go away.
Resource Providers (currently in the hamburger menu) page will move to About: https://access-ci.org/resource-providers/
Info for:
This is a drop down menu that will include specific information for ACCESS’s most important audiences/users: Researchers, Educators, Graduate Students, Resource Providers, and Community (or Programs & Organizations)
Additional notes:
Metrics Metrics is no longer represented in the top navigation since users need to be up and running on ACCESS before using the Metrics tool XDMoD to measure and monitor their project. One solution is to replace TRAININGS with TOOLS in the top level nav and link here: https://support.access-ci.org/tools/overview. Linking to TOOLS allows users to find XDMoD and other tools to run and manage their projects. If TRAININGS is removed we will rely on the SUPPORT link to get users to Events & Trainings.
News The ACCESS websites contain four types of news sources in addition to social media: News published by ACO, Announcements published by Support, Integration News published by Operations, and Systems Status News published by Operations as well as Outages published by Support which is the same content as Systems Status. The tracks should review, consider new labels, confirm which track own what type of content – e.g. Integration News could be Integration Updates. This information is for RPs only.