Web Presentation Guide 5.1
for Digital Government
Modified October 2007

Purpose

We began the development of the Web Presentation Guide in the spring of 2000. Since that time, many state agencies have participated in its creation and evolution. Today, the guide is Washington state's premier collection of best practices for agencies developing high-value Web content and digital government services. The guide is a comprehensive handbook that represents a remarkable feat of statewide collaboration.

Agencies use the guide as a business requirements and technical tool. Its wide range of subject areas include the how-to of accessibility, browsers, common look and feel, copyright, hardware and software, hyperlinks, maintenance, metadata, meta tags, image design, navigation, Adobe PDFs, performance, policy, privacy, records, testing, usability, video and more.

Objectives

We designed the guide as a roadmap for agencies to deliver government-to-government and public Web-based information and services. For an agency business program and/or Web developer, the guide reduces risk, speeds time-to-market and eliminates redundancies. For the citizen, the guide leads to the development of Web sites that are easy to use and convenient, with a common look and feel.

The Department of Information Services, in coordination with multi-agency statewide workgroups, facilitates the review process of the guide and assesses the impact of technology changes and capabilities on its content. We have organized the guide alphabetically so that users can locate a specific topic quickly. The action checklists for each topic are viewable online and available for download. The Web Presentation Guide is useful end-to-end - from site design through launch.

Contact info

Laura Parma
Assistant Director, Interactive Technologies
Department of Information Services
laurap@dis.wa.gov