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Web Standards
The New Zealand Government Web Standards and Recommendations aim to help government make well-designed web sites that enable access regardless of disability, web browser, mobile device, or connection speed.
You'll also get better search engine rankings, lower costs and extend the life of your web site by using Web Standards.
- Planning a web site
- Designing a web site
- Creating and publishing content
- Providing interactive content
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News, views, professional development
- 12 June Microsoft warns Web site owners to prep for IE8
- 4 June The business case for web standards
- 3 June Government 2.0: Building an Online Democracy
- 21 April Learning what makes Facebook tick
- 27 May Web Standards Rap
- 9 May Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content
- 16 May Study critical of UK gov't tax office Web site
- 21 April 25 Years in Usability
- 31 March eBay hires Webcredible as accessibility consultants
- 6 April Why Accessibility Is Easy
- 18 March More books added to our standards lending library
- 18 March Government 2.0 Truly Transformative Government: Webcast
- 18 March Speech on Government 2.0 - Tom Watson MP, Minister for Transformational Government, Cabinet Office
- 14 Feb Web Standards Lending Library open for business
- 7 Feb Podcast discussion on the latest version of the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- 5 Feb Better connected, UK annual report on local authority websites, due March 3
- 4 Feb Web Directions South conference, Sydney, 2007. Presentations
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Latest discussion
- 22 Jul 08, 16:39 - Syndicated feed standard . . Matthew Ross
- 22 Jul 08, 16:31 - Recommendation 6.1.9 Media releases ... . . Matthew Ross
- 21 Jul 08, 08:24 - Recommendation 4.1.3 Compression of ... . . Anthony Hawkins
- 13 Jul 08, 10:43 - 3.1 Documents validate to published ... . . Grant MacKenzie
