Create a help link at home page

[morandinimarcelo]

A HELP in the Homepage can be interesting to support non-experienced users

[robyngit]

Good idea @morandinimarcelo - could you expand on that a little further? What topics, or aspects of DataONE, do you think should the "help" section cover?

[morandinimarcelo]

Hi there Robyn Well... i think it might be something that overviews the web site and the possible search for environmental data Something very general... And designed for a non-experienced user - like someone using the web site for an initial search My wife is a biologist and i will ask her help to search for something and so i can have better clues... ;-) See you,

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[robyngit]

Thanks, @morandinimarcelo! Feedback from users with less or no experience with the website is super useful.

I see how we might be able to provide more information to users who aren't yet familiar with DataONE or the MetacatUI search interface.

Related to that, I'm going to copy your feedback about the advanced search help here, as it's closely related and it will be useful to have all of this feedback in one place. From issue 93:

Also, this page informs that there it is presented 1 to 25 of 822,078 datasets and the map on the right side is presenting lots of different numbers in squares. The user might have no idea of what is going on and why these numbers are there and what they represent.
Maybe it would be better to present a "blank" page and emphasize on how to select a dataset of how to perform a specific search