A conversation about content audits
Content audits can be tedious. Two content designers discuss why we do them anyway, and how to get started.
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Hurricane Idalia guidance for U.S. government websites and social media
Addressing web and digital communications related to Hurricane Idalia
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Hawaii wildfires guidance for U.S. government websites and social media
Addressing web and digital communications related to Hawaii wildfires
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Guidelines for Improving Digital Services
The Digital Services Advisory Group and the Federal Web Managers Council have developed the following guidelines to meet the 6.1 milestone …
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Digital Meets Culture: Getting Your Culture in Line With Your Digital Strategy
Learn how digital service teams in government navigate through the currents of organizational culture and implement change at their agencies.
Learn how to improve the user experience of your website by following the ADAPT Model to enhance the performance of your content on cellular networks or mobile devices.
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Color in Digital Design
How do we choose color in digital design? In print, we have the Pantone fan and what you see is what you get — as long as your printer is color calibrated. With computer monitors, one does not get such precision, even within one office. So how much time and effort do you spend on color selection?
Digging Into the Data of Our Customer Survey
As a followup to the recent post about our annual customer satisfaction survey, we wanted to dig into the data and share some of the overall results, to give you some more insights into how we’re using your feedback to improve our programs and services. Background: For the past three years, GSA’s Office of Citizen
What’s in a Name? “Communities” in the Public and Private Sectors
Many of you are part of a government community. We lead a few of them here, and new ones are forming all the time. In fact, as I was writing this article, I stumbled upon a community for government Drupal users. A co-worker recently asked me for research on communities because she is trying to
Keeping Vanity URLs in Check: A Few Criteria
Shortcuts, Vanity or Marketing URLs, are all names for the requests Web managers get to shorten Web addresses. The shortened links make it easy to share long links as well as track clicks on those links. On a recent discussion thread on the Web Managers
Member Spotlight – Jill James, Dept. of Education
Welcome to the first edition of a new series of articles spotlighting members of our Government Web Manager Community. This month, we introduce Jill James, who’s the Senior Web Editor/Director for the Department of Education, in their Communications and Outreach
Photo Carousels on Mobile Websites: Use With Caution!
You might recognize them by the user controls, if provided, that allow you to move from one newsy item to the next. They go by various names, including: carousel, slider, slideshow, banner, and gallery. Many government homepages have them. In a recent email exchange on
Is It Tweet-Worthy?
The Web now contains over 1.51 billion pages of content, according to WorldWideWebSize.com. That’s a lot of reading material, and a lot of content competing with yours for attention. People won’t waste time (even a few seconds) on an article that doesn’t matter to them in some way—not when there are so many other interesting
In the Beginning…of Web in Federal Government
With the 25th anniversary of the Web, we wanted to share stories from the beginnings of Web in the federal government and how online government has evolved in the years since. The State Department may have been one of the first, in 1991, with a
