NCBI Web Design Standards
The National Center for Biotechnology information (NCBI) is beginning work on a substantial website redesign. This repository contains the UI components developed to support that activity.
The NCBI is a U.S. government agency that collects, analyzes, amd distributes scientific data and associated biomedical literature. It is part of the U.S. National Library of Medicine located within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The new NCBI standards are built on the foundation of the U.S. Web Design Standards (USWDS). The aim of the USWDS to improve consistency across federal websites and achieve better experiences for the Americal public.
Getting started
First, clone or download this repository from GitHub. All of the
necessary CSS, HTML, image, and JavaScript files are located
within the assets directory.
assets/
│
├── css/
│ ├── header.css
│ ├── footer.css
│ └── form.css
│
├── html/
│ ├── _header.html
│ └── _footer.html
│
├── img/
│ ├── favicons/*
│ ├── header/*
│ └── logos/*
│
└── js/
└── header.js
Copy the assets directory to a location on the web server
or incorporate them as appropriate for other web development
platforms.