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Articles and resources about building websites which conform to web standards.
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- Developers' Resource Kit from the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
- The Web Development Guidelines cover all aspects of standard web page development as well as the technology areas of Flash, XML/XSLT, mobile phone/PDA, RSS, Java, JavaScript, Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis, which themselves present specific accessibility, usability and logic requirements.
Added: 5 November 2008
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- Web Standards - Archive
- Articles and resources about building websites which conform to web standards.
Added: 22 December 2005
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- Enterprise Operational Standard: Web Design - in pdf format (447kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). As developed by the Web Design Workgroup, Iowa Department of Administrative Services, March 13, 2012. "The purpose of the State of Iowa Web Design Standard is to: - Reinforce Iowa.gov identity and make it clear to users they are on an Iowa Executive Branch site; - Provide consistency and continuity in website appearance - Improve the quality, usability and accessibility of State web sites and services for the public; - Ensure that critical state links appear on all agency sites; - Integrate agency sites, web applications and the portal, to support the "one government" approach and move away from bureaucratic separation of information; - Increase efficiency of website development and management by agencies..."
Added: 27 March 2012;
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- A Security Analysis of Next Generation Web Standards
- ENISA, July 31, 2011. "The web browser is arguably the most security-critical component in our information infrastructure. It has become the channel through which most of our information passes. ENISA is seizing a unique chance to make detailed recommendations for improvements to browser security before they become non-negotiable for years to come. The standards which govern the browser are currently undergoing a major upgrade. This includes HTML5, cross-origin communication standards such as CORS and standards for access to local data such as geo-location. In total 51 security threats and issues are identified and detailed in this report..."
Added: 1 August 2011;
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- Measuring website costs
- Central Office of Information. Guidance number: TG128; Date issued: March 2009; Version: 1.0. "This guidance equips central government departments with a common method for measuring the cost of websites, providing the first step in determining value for money. This enables departments to answer Parliamentary Questions and Freedom of Information requests about expenditure on websites consistently and accurately..."
Added: 14 April 2010;
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- UK government - Web standards and guidelines
- Central Office of Information. "Your guide to managing, improving and marketing UK public sector websites..."
Added: 14 April 2010;
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- Web Developer Guidelines
- Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, 2008. "Web Development presents all guidelines for developing and maintaining web pages and websites to the required standards of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD). A separate Web Developer Quality Assurance checklist (XLS - 327KB) document is available for download that should be used to check compliance with these requirements and which is needed for manual reporting back to the department's Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration Unit (KSCU) to show compliance to the standards. Web Development comprises an exhaustive list of guidelines broken down by web component focus, each of which individually link to further information on what the guideline is and how to implement it..."
Added: 5 November 2008;
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- Website Standards, Guidelines and Checklists
- Western Australia, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Office of e-Government, March 2008. The Website Standards and Guidelines suite of documents include: Website Principles; Website Standards: Common Website Elements; Guidelines for State Government Websites; Self-assessment Website Standards Checklist: Common Website Elements; Self-assessment Website Guidelines Checklist...
Added: 15 October 2008;
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- Public consultation on browser standards for public sector websites
- UK Central Office of Information, September 2008. "This guidance has been developed to assist those delivering public sector websites to determine which web browsers to use for testing. Public sector websites have a responsibility to be inclusive and not exclude groups of users but it would be impractical to test websites on every available browser. These guidelines provide a method for creating a reasonable list of browsers for testing... Consultation start date: September 5, 2008; Consultation end date: October 17, 2008..."
Added: 10 September 2008;
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- 6: Information Architecture - Planning out a web site
- By Jonathan Lane. dev.Opera, 8 July, 2008. "This is Article 6 of the Web Standards Curriculum... This article is going to look at the early stages of planning out a web site, and a discipline that is commonly referred to as Information architecture, or IA. This involves thinking about who your target audience will be, what information and services they need from a web site, and how you should structure it to provide that for them. You’ll look at the entire body of information that needs to go on the site and think about how to break that down into chunks, and how those chunks should relate to one another...
Added: 14 July 2008;
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- 2: The history of the Internet and the web, and the evolution of web standards
- By Mark Norman Francis. dev.opera, 8 July 2008. "... Everything has to begin somewhere, so our journey will start with a focused history lesson. Below I am going to give you a brief overview of the creation of the Internet, the World Wide Web, and the "web standards" that this entire series focuses upon..."
Added: 14 July 2008;
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- 1: Introduction to The Web Standards Curriculum/Table of Contents
- By Chris Mills. dev.opera, 8 July 2008. "This is Article 1—the first article in the Web Standards Curriculum... "... the Web Standards Curriculum, a course designed to give anyone a solid grounding in web design/development, no matter who they are—it is completely free to use, accessible, and assumes no previous knowledge..."
Added: 14 July 2008;
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- Toward More Transparent Government: Advance Notice of Workshop
- W3C, 30 March 2007. "W3C plans a Workshop Toward More Transparent Government co-sponsored by the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) on 18-19 June 2007 in Washington, D.C., USA, hosted by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Attendees will help to find ways of facilitating the deployment of Web standards across eGovernment sites, to help shape ongoing research in the development of Web technology and public policy, in order to realize the potential of the Web for access to, and use of, government information. A Call for Participation is expected in a few weeks..."
Added: 2 April 2007;
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- NZ Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0
- State Services Commission, March 2007. "New Zealand Government Web Standards and Recommendations v1.0 applies to any web site that is intended for the public and financed by the public through the crown or through public agencies. Web sites that are internal to an agency (intranets) are not mandated to be compliant but it would be good practice to have consistency across agency web sites..."
Added: 28 March 2007;
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- Better Web Standards for New Zealand Government
- State Services Commission, March 21, 2007. "The State Services Commission New Zealand today released the Government Web Standards v 1.0, replacing the previous Government Web Guidelines v2.1, first issued in February 2004. The standards have been revised to make them more usable and to ensure they can be measured and tested, making them more effective for Government agencies..."
Added: 28 March 2007;
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- Where Our Standards Went Wrong
- by Ethan Marcotte. A List Apart Magazine, February 26, 2007. "... The problem at hand - We can all agree that the realities of the web make it hard to build a standards-compliant site. Once the client’s CMS, outdated WYSIWYG editors, and third-party advertising code have finished with once-valid markup, things begin to look ever-so-ugly under the hood; this leads many to suggest, like Bowman, that an insistence on validation is at odds with commercial web design. Given that most of these invalid sites look fine in a browser, the amount of time and money required to produce perfectly valid final code seems not only prohibitive, but pointless..."
Added: 6 March 2007;
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- Standard Compliance has Two Different Meanings
- by Sean Fraser. The Elementary Standards, February 8, 2007."Websites that are standards compliant may not been seen as standards-compliant. It - Actually - makes sense. However, when I was first learning how building websites with web standards was done, it made me crazy..."
Added: 19 February 2007;
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