[jira] [Commented] (CAMEL-15185) Improve Footer on Camel Website

["Aashna Jena (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Aashna Jena commented on CAMEL-15185:
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Really like [Hook Agency website's footer design|https://hookagency.com/]. It's got contact info, logo, subscription form, social media icons etc. The mobile design skips the sitemap and places the logo on top with the rest of the information below it. I also really like the slanting top border for the footer (Not sure if that fits for our site) and the contrast between background colours of the page & footer (this is something we can do with our website). [Sephora's website|https://www.sephora.com/] has topic wise links in the footer but in the mobile view, it's displayed as dropdowns, which looks like a good option to me if we want to keep topic-wise links. 

> Improve Footer on Camel Website
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CAMEL-15185
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-15185
>             Project: Camel
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: website
>            Reporter: Aashna Jena
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: outreachy2020, suggestions
>
> I have some reservations about the website footer. On the mobile view, the footer takes up almost the entire height of my device because the Overview, Community and About columns do not fit into one row. Secondly, on the desktop view, the header navigation is fixed at the top, so I can view the header menu while I'm at the footer of the page. Having same links visible on the header menu and footer doesn't make sense to me (Download, Community, Blog etc). I do see a lot of websites having menu links on the footer, but they don't have a fixed navbar.
> Suggestions : I looked up best practices for footers. I think we can reduce the number of links we display on the footer, especially the ones overlapping with header menu. We can also add some things (from what I read up on best practices) - form for subscribing to the mailing list, sitemap link, contact information, link to report a bug on the website, privacy policy/ terms of use (if we have) and maybe a subscription for the blog, since we have quite informative and regular blog posts. I also really like the idea of having a row of social media icons in the footer, which a lot of websites do. This will give us the freedom of adding many more icons than on the header menu. 



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