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Sidebar Navigation Update

Later this week on Thursday, the right-hand navigation menus on the USD website will undergo a noticeable upgrade. Based on usability testing and maintainer feedback to improve the user experience, the change will allow for tiered dropdown menus and improved visibility in the navigation for nested pages.

No action is required from you, please feel free to continue editing your pages as needed. The upgrade will apply to the latest navigations for your site(s) on Wednesday, November 1st.

Editing and Review

This is a great time to review your navigation titles and make updates as needed. You are free to continue editing navigation titles and the rest of your pages at your convenience.

Next Steps

Once the upgrade is made, you will notice the ability to see a dropdown menu (for the horizontal navigation on your main pages) along with improved visibility for your nested pages in the right-hand navigation areas. Examples of this are visible in a staging enviroment, found on this Student Financial Services page, as well as this Endowments page. This new feature indicates the ability to collapse and show or hide a section, while also displaying the hierarchy of the nested pages within the section. 

Browser Caching and Questions

If you don't notice the change or notice anything amiss, please first manually refresh your cache for that page or test in a new incognito window (to help avoid potential caching issues) to confirm.

If you have any questions please let us know via our online web request form.

Thank you,

 

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