Remove Home link from global navigation
What does this MR do and why?
Updates to the global nav:
- Removes the link to "Home" from the left sidebar, which is actually a link to https://docs.gitlab.com/ee, not the homepage.
- Moves the items that were underneath "Home":
- "GitLab: The DevSecOps platform" becomes the top-level item for this section and is renamed to "About" (in the navigation only; actual page title stays the same)
- Other pages in this section (currently this is just https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/legal/use_generative_ai.html) move under the "About" page
Why:
- It's confusing for users to have a page labeled "Home" that isn't the homepage for the website (see !4461 (comment 1729905189)).
- The page at
/ee
is the homepage for/help
, but the website homepage is what you see at https://docs.gitlab.com. The/ee
page is not useful in the website context. - Users can reach the homepage by clicking the link on the logo in the top-left corner. This is standard practice; it is not standard practice to include the homepage in the sidebar navigation. In terms of IA, a homepage is a level above the top-level pages in the sidebar.
- The page at
- The Hugo site drops the
/ee
page (see #1081 (closed), #710).- Updating the global nav to reflect this now saves us a step in the migration: anything we can do before the full switchover reduces complexity of rolling out the new site.
This does not remove the /ee
page from the site. That page should still exist while the other pages have the ee/
prefix in their URLs. This only changes the left sidebar. The ee/
prefix will be fully dropped on the Hugo site.
Screenshots, screen recordings, or links to review app
Before | After |
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Review app: https://nav-home-link.docs.gitlab-review.app/ee/devsecops.html
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Edited by Sarah German