The HELLO Community home page displays featured content and recent blog posts in a scroll bar at the top. When you select items from the menus, this content is replaced. In more complex sections, the left and right panels may be hidden to provide additional space.
The site includes five menu areas:
1. Main Menu
This is the primary navigation for content developed for and by our members. It is located below the site banner. From here you can access:
- Sentient
- Recent and archived blog posts
- MentorMatch program
- Shared files
- Recommended websites
- Reads
- Community events
- Vendor business directory
- Networking — member information and utilities
Each main menu item has a drop-down menu (revealed on mouseover) that links to related pages. The main menu label always links to the first item in its drop-down list, even if the page title is slightly longer or phrased differently.
2. Top Horizontal Menu
This menu appears above the site banner and provides administrative and informational links, including:
- Information about HELLO and its advisory committees
- User guides and policies
- Ways to volunteer within the community
- Contact forms and support forums
- Donation information
- Registration, login, and logout buttons
Some items have sub-pages that are displayed in the Siblings box (the yellow highlighted box in the left panel) when you open that section. This menu also provides quick links to HELLO on LinkedIn and Facebook.
3. Left-Hand Vertical Panel
This panel appears on all non–full-width pages, including the home page. It shows informational and featured/example items such as:
- Search toolbar
- Sibling pages related to the content currently displayed in the main area
- Additional information such as announcements and membership numbers
- Randomly selected member testimonials, books, sites, events, etc.
4. Right-Hand Vertical Panel
Also visible on all non–full-width pages (including the home page), this is the Action Items panel, offering tools to:
- Interact with the membership
- Contribute your expertise and resources
- Invite friends and colleagues to join the community
5. Footer Menu
The footer menu has four columns:
- About Site Content: Site statistics and randomly selected information from our vendor database
- User-Related Content: Information about the logged-in user (e.g., favorite pages, bookmarked pages, followers, and following)
- About Members: Community activity (e.g., who has been active, new forum threads, and recent replies)
- Tools: Utilities to help you find content, translate the site, and contribute to HELLO