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    "title" : "New Ed.gov Homepage and More |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"New Ed.gov Homepage and More","summary" : "You may have noticed we launched our new Ed.gov homepage today. This completes the third and final phase of our visual refresh for our main website. We released the second phase of the refresh back in June. So, what’s new? Streamlined Homepage The new homepage takes our efforts to streamline navigation on the website one","date" : "2015-01-23T11:10:51-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"jill-james" : "Jill James"},"topics" : {
        
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      "filepath" :"news/2015/01/2015-01-23-new-ed-gov-homepage-and-more.md",
      "filepathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/blob/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/01/2015-01-23-new-ed-gov-homepage-and-more.md",
      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/01/2015-01-23-new-ed-gov-homepage-and-more.md","slug" : "new-ed-gov-homepage-and-more","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/01/23/new-ed-gov-homepage-and-more/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eYou may have noticed we launched our \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed.gov/\"\u003enew Ed.gov homepage\u003c/a\u003e today. This completes the third and final phase of our visual refresh for our main website. We released the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed.gov/blog/2014/06/ed-gov-has-a-new-look/\"\u003esecond phase of the refresh\u003c/a\u003e back in June.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, what’s new?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"streamlined-homepage\"\u003eStreamlined Homepage\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe new homepage takes our efforts to streamline navigation on the website one big step further. There are fewer links and more open space on the homepage.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/01/350-x-523-EDgov-3-0-homepage.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/01/250-x-374-EDgov-3-0-homepage.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Screenshot of the Ed.gov website\u0026#39;s homepage\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003eHow did we decide what links and content are on the homepage? We used data that we get through the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/guides/dap/\"\u003eDigital Analytics Program\u003c/a\u003e and other feedback tools. The most popular, highest traffic sections and pages on the website have a spot on the homepage or in the navigation. Links that didn’t get many clicks moved to pages a level down.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe data shows that our customers use external search engines and site search as the primary ways to enter and navigate the site. In a way, every page is our homepage, and although it gets a lot of traffic, the homepage isn’t always the first stop or entry point.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter we rolled out the new top, bottom and side menus back in June, we’ve seen an upward trend in \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ed.gov/web-guidance/stats/index.html\"\u003eour online customer satisfaction score\u003c/a\u003e overall, and in navigation and look-and-feel in particular. More customers who reply to the satisfaction survey say they find what they’re looking for.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"more-mobile-friendly\"\u003eMore Mobile-Friendly\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow the entire flagship Ed.gov site offers a mobile-friendly Web experience. All of our main website and blog content layouts use \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ed.gov/web-guidance/stats/index.html\"\u003eresponsive design\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"http://getbootstrap.com/\"\u003eBootstrap\u003c/a\u003e styling, which means each webpage automatically adjusts to the size of your smartphone or tablet. There’s no more need to do that reverse pinch gesture to zoom in and so you can read the text on your phone.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"online-press-room-updates\"\u003eOnline Press Room Updates\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe press room content—press releases, media advisories, and speeches—are more easily readable anytime, anywhere and on any device.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can get to the online press room quickly by visiting \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed.gov/news\"\u003eed.gov/news\u003c/a\u003e or clicking on the “More News” link on the homepage.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe also launched a refreshed \u003ca href=\"http://www2.ed.gov/news/av/video/index.html\"\u003evideo page\u003c/a\u003e today that pulls in a feed of our most recently posted videos.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"technical-upgrades\"\u003eTechnical Upgrades\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe made a number of improvements under the hood. We upgraded our content management system, \u003ca href=\"https://www.drupal.org/\"\u003eDrupal\u003c/a\u003e, from version 6 to version 7, so we are keeping current with the version supported by the open source community. Moving from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 also made it easier to convert to a mobile-friendly, responsive design theme. Other technical improvements should mean that our webpages load more quickly now.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope these updates improve your Ed.gov experience! If you have comments or suggestions, please share them here on the blog.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis post was originally published on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ed.gov/blog/\"\u003eHomeroom blog\u003c/a\u003e by Jill James, web director at the U.S. Department of Education and co-chair of the Department’s Open Government Working Group.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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