Make the link to home page more prominent on website [Discussion]

[ananyaarun]

Description

The link to home page on the website ie "Public Lab" visible on the top left corner of the navbar is a bit ambiguous to users as it doesnt stand out as a "link" to home page. Hovering over it causes no effect at the moment either.

Expected

• On hover effect can be added to this to make it look/behave more like a link.
• Or text can be changed to "HOME PAGE" or "HOME" instead of public lab.

[ananyaarun]

Any thoughts on this change ? I'd like to work on this once finalized :) Thanks.

[grvsachdeva]

We have "Dashboard" in navbar. Isn't that sufficient?

[ananyaarun]

Yes absolutely, I may be wrong but Consider a user not logged in/unregistered . Just visiting the website to read notes and wikis. To get to the home page they dont have a dashboard option and have to click on Public Lab which doesnt really look like a link to homepage. Without knowing this the user may just keep using back arrow to navigate.
For a logged in user i see both dashboard and Clicking on public lab takes you to user dashboard.

[grvsachdeva]

Hmm, so should we add something similar to "dashboard" for users which browse site without logging-in. Something like "research" just to match URL? Also, at same place at "dashboard" link?

@jywarren @ananyaarun

[ananyaarun]

Yes ! That wud be nice to have. The URL can match /research.
Regarding position , For an unregistered user, "Login" and "sign up" options are displayed while for a registered user "Dashboard" and the profile icon are.
So adding a link at the dashboard place would involve creating a new item on the navbar. Am i right ?
@jywarren @gauravano

[ananyaarun]

@gauravano @jywarren thoughts on this ?
I think we can make this a GCI issue, at least the part to add on hover effect :)

[jywarren]

Sure!

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[cesswairimu]

A tooltip was added #8504 which took care of this issue. Closing this. Thanks