Component variant: secondary footer

[khawkins98]

For big organisations, they usually have a global footer and section-specific footers (about EMBL vs about EMBL's microscopy unit).

In both cases the footers span a section of pages, but the section-specific footer often needs to appear before the global footer.

Standard questions

• In a few words, what does this component look like? Echoes the vf-footer but is, well, secondary

• In a few words, what does this component do? Contain some about text, contact information, data policies and lists of links.

• Would a rebrand change the structure or layout of this component? not really, it's a container above the vf-footer container

• Can other websites use this component? Or is it only useful in your organisation or website? yep

• Do you have any designs or concepts? here's how we did it for vf 1.x

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/style-lab/websites/meta-patterns/page-structure.html

• How often do you expect to make use of this component? fairly often, not on every page, but we expect many EMBL teams and some news articles could use this

Any further thoughts?

Maybe similar to the main vf-footer but with a slightly lighter background?

This is becoming an area of recurring need as services develop their own things. Flagging as high importance.

Here's the workaround look i've been using for now (just a vf-grid with link lists)