Homepage header: layout options
Three ways to arrange the top of the site, following Wednesday’s discussion about the white strip over the purple bar. Each one is shown over the same hero so you can compare them like for like. Menu wording and the mega menu behind the menu button do not change.
Current: white quick-links bar on top, purple main bar below.
Option 1
One block of purple
Tim’s suggestion: the top bar becomes the same purple as the main bar, with the text inverted to white, so the two rows read as one header and the site no longer looks letterboxed. Everything else stays where it is.
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Option 2
Purple top bar, white main bar
The quick-links bar sits on top in purple and the main bar below it is white with the colour logo and a purple Donate button. The more conventional pattern: the thin coloured strip reads as a utility bar rather than a second header.
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Option 3
Single bar, Franklin’s style
Everything in one white bar: logo, a separator, the main sections as a visible menu, then phone, Accessibility and Donate on the right. No second row at all; the menu button only appears on phones and tablets.
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Option 3b
Single bar in purple
The same single-bar layout on purple with the white logo, for comparison with the current colour.
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