NIH Web Authors Group (WAG)
Policy & Guidance on Web Site Development, Management, and Evaluation
Federal Policy & Guidance
- Policies
for Federal Agency Public Websites (PDF - 49 KB)
—from
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - NIH World Wide Web Guidance—from Office of the Deputy CIO (CIT/OCIO)
- Guidelines for NIH Web Sites—addresses questions about creating a new NIH Web site (Office of Communications and Public Liaison)
- Interagency
Committee on Government Information (ICGI) —resources
for making it easier for all Americans to find and use the
government information and services they need
- Federal Accessibility
Initiative: Section 508 —resources for understanding
and implementing the requirements of Section 508
- Plain Language Initiative —Federal
guidance in writing user-friendly documents
- Plain Language Information—Tips for using plain language and links to resources
- Making Your Website Senior Friendly (PDF - 176 KB)—provides research-based guidelines for making web sites more accessible to all adults
- IT Accessibility Resources—Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards
- Content & Design Guidelines for NIH Home Page Slides—OD/OCPL/OLIB
- Use of NIH Names and Logos—from NIH Policy Manual
- NIH Publications and Audiovisuals: Preparation, Review, Approval, and Distribution (#1183)—OD/OCPL
- Scientific, Technical, and Other Professional Information Presented by NIH Employees: Review, Approval, and Distribution (#1184)—OD/OCPL
- Privacy Act at NIH—information from the Office of Management Assessment (OD/OMA)
- The
Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (PDF
- 232 KB)
—how to
comply with protecting children's privacy online
- NIH Web Privacy Policy #2805—OD/OCPL (NIH-only access)
Social Media Policy & Guidance
- NIH Social and New Media Policy #2809—OD/OCPL (NIH-only access)
- Social Media —Howto.gov
- Guidelines for Participating in Wikipedia from NIH—Guidance from the Office of Communications and Public Liaison
- HHS
Blogging Standard —HHS Policy and technical information
regarding the use of Blogs
- HHS Standards, Guidelines & Guidance —HHS
Policy and information regarding the use of new media
- HHS New Media
Standards and Policies —HHS Standards and Policy from
the HHS Center for New Media
- HHS
YouTube Guidance —HHS Standards and Policy regarding
YouTube
- HHS Center for New Media —a
Resource center for new media tools, standards and policies and
lessons learned
- HHS-OCIO
Policy for Social Media Technologies —Policy for the
use of social media technologies as they pertain to IT Security
- HHS Podcast Guidance —Guidance about starting a Podcast, resources, content and publishing
Developing Your Web Site
- NIH Primary Web Contact List—who to contact before setting up a web site at NIH
- NIH Domain Name Service—apply for and register an NIH domain name with CIT
- Research-Based
Web Design & Usability Guidelines —from NCI's
Usability.gov Web site
- W3C Web Accesibility Initiative —how
to promote a high degree of usability for people with disabilities
- Developing Web Sites at NIH—Official OD/OCPL Web Guidance from the On-Line Information Branch
- Improving Findability: A Guide for Web Managers at the National Institutes of Health—10 tips to make NIH more findable through search
Managing Your Web Site
- Document Repository—successful Statements of Work, funding requests, and vacancy announcements supplied by NIH Web Managers
Evaluating Your Web Site
- Set-Aside Evaluation Funding—available for usability studies from the Office of Evaluation (OD/OE)
Special Interest Groups
- Content Management Systems Workgroup—this group meets to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, solutions, and product updates involving CMS technology (NIH-only access)
- Web Metrics Group—this group meets to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, solutions, and product updates involving Web metrics ((NIH-only access)—group membership required—contact Julie Morton)
- NIH's Handheld Users Group (HUG)—addresses the needs of NIH handheld device users
For specific questions, email olib@od.nih.gov or call 301-435-2932.
This page last reviewed on January 23, 2012
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