The guide's specific focus is web content. It provides some general rules of usage, presentation and spelling.

The guide helps to:

• establish a basic set of conventions to help keep the language, look, feel and meaning of each page of the site consistent, no matter how many writers are involved in the creation of content
• set a consistent standard for the presentation of content elements such as headings, text, links and images
• set a consistent standard for the way content is written
• set a standard way to write commonly used words or acronyms across the site
• provide a reference point for resolving inconsistencies or conflicting opinions about spelling or word usage
• provide guidance on the presentation of content to aid in Search Engine Optimisation of a page
• ensure WoVG Web Standards are adhered to
• provide consistency for the lifetime of the site as new writers and editors join and leave the team.

(This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Office of the Victorian Privacy Commissioner, May 2004. "These guidelines for website privacy, made pursuant to the Privacy Commissioner's functions under section 58 of the Information Privacy Act, have been prepared for local conditions with an eye to the wider context; Victoria, like the rest of the developed world, is adjusting to how we will govern ourselves in what is sometimes called the Information Age.5 Greater use of communications and information technology is part of that adjustment, and by making privacy laws Parliaments are saying that this trend must be accompanied by values that the public regards as important and wants to maintain..."