As I move into actually implementing some of the standards I have been finalizing, I wanted to thank everyone for their feedback so far. Moving forward, I am planning to tackle my project piece by piece as the summer progresses.
Now that I have some standards in place, I am going to work on getting a new menu established. Keys to this included identifying what is missing and/or extra on the current menus.
I plan on implementing a horizontal menu. I also plan on ensuring that any necessary links are present above the "fold" of the page, making it so users do not have to scroll down to access options. Hopefully, some rough implementation of this will be done soon.
After the menu, I'll take some time and brush up the standards documentation before moving onto the next piece.