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Guidelines for UK government websites

The Guidelines for UK government websites provide a comprehensive blueprint of best practices for building and managing well designed usable and accessible websites. They detail managerial, content and technical requirements, recommendations and suggestions of best practice, sample cut and paste markup, tutorials and checklists. All of which is under pinned by support of the recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium.

Illustrated handbook for web management teams. [published May 2002, revised March 2003]

> Index to pages in html
> Index to pages in PDF
> Index to pages in MS Word

> .gov.uk domain registration

The Guidelines for UK Government websites (Illustrated Handbook) is available as a printed book from TSO. ISBN 0 11 430179 4, £35.00, Order online www.tso.co.uk/bookshop

Our start-up kit provides a small, self-contained, accessible and usable training template.

> Template website

Framework for senior managers [published November 2002]

> MS Word version (207 KB)
> plain text version (54.9KB)
> PDF version (404KB)

Framework for local government [consultation draft published August 2002]

> MS Word version (330KB)
> PDF version (316KB)

Quality Framework for UK government website design [consultation draft published July 2002]

> Index to pages in MS Word
> Index to pages in PDF
> Index to pages in html

Quality Briefings for UK government websites - Issues of best practice for government website management:

> advertising case study
> document list for webmasters
> sample business cases

Guidelines for UK government websites (Version 1)

> Archive version is still available

 

Contact the Digital Products team If you have any queries, please email: webguidelines@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk

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