• New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0

• New Zealand Government Web Standards 1.0
  • » 1. Images
  • » 2. Colour
  • » 3. Site Markup
  • » 4. Special Purpose Documents
  • » 5. Writing Content
  • » 6. Site Content
  • » 7. Page Layout
  • » 8. Navigation
  • » 9. Style Sheets
  • » 10. Dynamic Content
  • » 11. Tables
  • » 12. Frames
  • » 13. Scripting and Applets
  • » 14. Page Refreshing
  • » 15. Site Behaviour
  • » 16. Site Layout
    • 16.1 Links to homepage of Main agency web site
    • 16.2 Minimum content of homepages
    • 16.3 Minimum content within About This Site
    • 16.4 Minimum content within Main agency web site
    • 16.5 Crown Copyright
    • 16.6 Copyright of third parties
    • 16.7 Privacy Statement
    • Recommendation 16.1.1 Divide large blocks of information into manageable groups
    • Recommendation 16.1.2 Provide information about the general layout of a site
    • Recommendation 16.1.3 Placement of distinguishing information
    • Recommendation 16.1.4 Provide information about document collections
    • Recommendation 16.1.5 Create a style of presentation that is consistent across pages
    • Recommendation 16.1.6 A homepage has a link to Search or a search box
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  • » 22. Online Forms
  • » 23. Tendering and Contracting
  • » 30. Site Delivery
  • » 31. Operational
  • » 32. Web Strategy

16.1 Links to homepage of Main agency web site

The Standard

16.1 Any web site owned by the agency that is not the 'Main' web site of the agency (defined as an 'Other' web site of the agency) has a link, as a minimum from the homepage, to the homepage of the 'Main' agency web site.

Note: 'Main' and 'Other' web sites of an agency are defined in the Glossary of Key Concepts.

Guide to this standard

It must be clear which agency is administering a web site. For example, Studylink and Office for Disability Issues (ODI) are web sites administered by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). The Studylink and ODI sites contain links back to the main agency (MSD) web site.

Related Standard

16.2 - Minimum content of homepages

Rationale for this standard

Any NZ Government agency site must be clear as to which agency is hosting the site.

All sites will ultimately relate back to a principal “root” of the agency.