/universal-navigation

Guidance and implementation instructions relating to the Universal Navigation (formerly NYS Common Web Banner) deployment.

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NY State Universal Navigation

The Universal Navigation is part of New York State’s planned progress toward creating exceptional digital experiences for citizens, business, and visitors. The navigation connects all websites to NY.GOV both visually and interactively. Because it is persistent and consistent on all public-facing NYS websites, users will be enabled to easily navigate to government services from anywhere across the “NYS web”.

Implementation Guidelines

  • Subscribe to email updates from the Yammer Group (below) to be notified as changes/additions happen to this guidance and to be informed of details of the rollout timeline.
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Universal Banner (choose 1 option)

Interactive Banner Option

  • [Instructions and embed code] (notes/interactive-option.md)
  • Demo

Static Banner Option

  • [Instructions and embed code] (notes/static-option.md)
  • Demo

Universal Footer (required)

  • [Instructions] (notes/footer.md)

Feedback

Yammer Group

  • Join the Universal Navigation Yammer Group to ask questions, discuss or give feedback.
  • Subscribe to the group by email so that updates are delivered to you automatically.

BETA Comment Period (9/17/2014-9/19/2014)

  • During the BETA comment period, feedback and questions can be contributed through
    • Feedback Spreadsheet
    • Feedback Screenshots and notes
    • Request access through the Office 365 interface after clicking link.
    • Review the existing issues to ensure that you are not creating duplicates.
    • Some issues from the ALPHA version feedback (also in spreadsheet) may still be pending.

BETA Tasks for All Teams

  • Use a development site or test page to actually implement the banner and footer. This is not the final version.
  • Test for desktop and mobile on various browsers (Tool for testing multiple screen sizes)
  • Test for any specific needs of the site (accessibility, script conflicts)
  • Take screenshots and reference in the feedback PPT (upload screenshots instead of copy/pasting)
  • Share your implementation strategy in the Yammer group (assume bugs will be fixed)
  • Thank you for participating!

### Questions - Please post questions to the [Yammer Group](http://goo.gl/RRlnFV) for the mutual benefit of all - If necessary, questions can be emailed to innovate@its.ny.gov