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Web Content Development Resources
This page provides references with detailed instructions, standards, and guidance for creating materials on EPA's Web site.
On this page
Other resources
- Web governance contacts: Content and Infrastructure Coordinators, Communications Directors, etc.
- EPA Web Guide: Inc ludes technical aspects of Web development (for example, how to create a directory)
- Office of Web Communication Contacts: find out who in OWC to call if you have a question about Flickr, blogging, widgets, crisis communications or countless other web topics that OWC handles.
Product development and review
The Policy and Implementation Guide provides the full range of guidance. The other two items provide an overview of the review process and common problems OPA notes during review.
| Description | URL |
|---|---|
| www.epa.gov/productreview/guide/webreview.html | |
| Web Procedures, Standards, and Guidance | www.epa.gov/webguide/standards |
| OPA Review
of Web Concepts and Drafts: What We Look For |
www.epa.gov/productreview/guide/web_lookfor.html |
| Web Council Members | www.epa.gov/webgovernance/leadership.html |
References
| Description | URL |
|---|---|
| Writing for the Web | http://www.epa.gov/productreview/writing/writing_handout.html |
| Writing for the Web Training | http://www.epa.gov/productreview/training/desc.html#writing |
| Standard look and feel | www.epa.gov/epafiles/ |
| PDF guidance (how to create them, how to link to them) | yosemite.epa.gov/OEI/webguide.nsf/design/pdf_guidance |
| Web Guide (all Web policies and procedures) | yosemite.epa.gov/oei/webguide.nsf |
| Formal Web policies | http://yosemite.epa.gov/OEI/webguide.nsf/policy/home |
| AP Stylebook | http://www.epa.gov/productreview/guide/apstylebook.html |
|
http://epa.gov/accessibility/ |
|
Point-by-point
guidance on section 508 and Web accessibility:  |
www.access-board.gov/ |
| Creating
good alt text for images: |
www.webaim.org/techniques/images/5 |
| Making Web graphics smaller | www.epa.gov/productreview/guide/graphicsize.html |
Related Memoranda
| Description | URL |
|---|---|
| Restructuring EPA's Online Presence (PDF) (2 pp., 461K, About PDF) (February 25, 2010) |
http://yosemite.epa.gov/OEI/webguide.nsf/policy/online_presence_memo/$File/online-presence-memo_feb2010.pdf |
| Web Governance and Management Policy (PDF) (339 K, 4 pp., About PDF) |
intranet.epa.gov/oei/imitpolicy/qic/ciopolicy/2191.pdf |
| "One Agency, One Voice" Memo from Administrator Whitman; January 11, 2002 | http://yosemite.epa.gov/OEI/webguide.nsf/policy/epaweb |
Other resources
| Description | URL |
|---|---|
| EPA Web Workgroup | intranet.epa.gov/webgroup |
| Federal
Web Content Managers Toolkit |
www.webcontent.gov |
| Plain
Language |
www.plainlanguage.gov |