Dynamic Custom Homepage - ROUND TWO

[mheppler]

Misc HTML + CSS + layout improvements

• Make symbols in the big red buttons gray. See mockup.
• Make the rules (lines) that are above "Find data across...", above “Activity” and above "Looking for other online..." bolder – if "hairline" then 1px, if 1px, then 1.5 or two (see mockup)
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• “Browse by subject” font to be the same as “Harvard Dataverse is a digital data repository…”
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• Recent datasets: change titles to “Datasets from Journal dataverses” and "Datasets from other Dataverses”
• Three columns of datasets – one on left is journals, and two on right are latest not journals. Header runs across both “other” columns (see mockup, previous version)
• Name of dataverse should be bold
• Remove dash before date in display of datasets
• "All recent journal activity" needs to go to search results showing journal dataverses and datasets, both facet boxes checked
• "All recent researchers activity" link – Change text and behavior. Text to say: "All recent activity". Behavior to load the regular search page (same as “all subjects”)
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• Activity section: add more counts (UI), and have them be correct, responsive layout (see new mockup below, Homepage Count Updates #5447)
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• "Looking for other repositories...?" section needs line break after DASH for responsive layouts

Javascript fixes

• Handle cases with no JS through no script tag
• Remove "Other" in JS
• “Search over ###### datasets...” placeholder count needs a comma
• Subject counts (1146) need commas
• Activity counts (4936934) need commas
• Search input watermark dataset count quickly blinks "75,000" before changing to comma-less count
• Recent dataset dates (Wed Jan 09 2019) need comma (e.g. Wed Jan 09, 2019), remove day of week, remove "0" if the day is a single digit

Other customization fixes

• Header: add 2px above and below Harvard logo (or make the logo slightly smaller)
• Header & footer: change both to solid background #ececec

Homepage template fixes

• Change page title from "Harvard Dataverse Dataverse" to "Harvard Dataverse"

Additional curation efforts

• Journal images – how might we include images of the Journal, if no image of data to show? I (or Dwayne, or Mike) could make images for each journal if the journal does not have a representative image of the journal cover we can use

Related GitHub Issues

• Custom home page for Harvard Dataverse Custom home page for Harvard Dataverse #5053 (released in 4.10)
• Homepage Count Updates Homepage Count Updates #5447
• "Activity" file downloads count (4936934) is off by 649,087 compared to the "Metrics" downloads (5,586,235) (tracked in Count of all file downloads from metrics API doesn't always match what's in UI (on old homepage metrics bar) #4970). This will be affected by additional numbers to be shown. New mockup below. Note that the numbers in the mockup are not necessarily accurate. Numbers that fit the categories shown in the mockup need to be calculated:

Updated Activity section

Misc notes...

• Retest this: The navigation is really off. It's hard to get back to the "front" page once you use it to get to production...so sometimes I get the production page, sometimes I get the new homepage
• Confirm settings: Create dataverse link behavior: link goes to the right page but 'dataverse' is automatically added to my repository name, which is not required anymore – it can be called anything, not just "dataverse."

[scolapasta]

Related to the "Activity download count being off" to-do list item: #4970

[matthew-a-dunlap]

For the "Activity" download counts problem, a short-term fix could be to just remove that section of the html until we get the metrics to line up in a future release

[scolapasta]

Should Search input watermark dataset count be 27.4k (# of datasets added?) or 81.2k (total number including harvested)? I'd vote for the latter

[djbrooke]

There's some more feedback coming from @mercecrosas for this issue. @TaniaSchlatter will add it tomorrow morning.