# 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
<a href="https://standards.usa.gov/">U.S. Web Design Standards</a> (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.