CUNY Academic Commons

We have two pages because at a certain point, I thought it was confusing that when you mouse over "About," it brings up a submenu of pages, and I thought that "About the Commons" should be listed there even though an about page would be available by clicking "About." I'm fine with deleting the submenu page (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/about/about-the-commons/) if you all think that makes the most sense, or we can remove the link from the main "About" item, which would be even better. Looping Chris into the conversation.

My vote would be to keep both links for now but have them both direct to the same page instead of two different pages.

The text on the About the Commons Page should be used (http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/about/about-the-commons/) so if we decided the single page should be http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/about then that should be updated.

The reason to keep the two links for now is that there is a different interaction for this right now on touch and mouse interfaces. If you click About on a desktop then it goes directly to the page. If you click it on a mobile device it will show the hover state and you would have to click About again to follow the link (at least on iOS haven't tested on others), so mobile users may be more inclined to click About and then About The Commons and not know they could click About again.

I may add another ticket about updating the text on the page. The mission statement alone feels a bit dry and doesn't really directly answer the question "what is it?" Clicking through to the Wikipedia page also seems roundabout to answer that question.

Thanks, Chris. I agree with your line of thinking above -- thanks for testing on a mobile device -- great point.