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Tips for Designing and Building an Award-Winning Website

The 2014 Best of the Web winners share collective insights to be used as a resource for state and local government agencies in website planning going forward.

Each year, the Center for Digital Government recognizes outstanding agency and department websites through the Best of the Web and Digital Government Achievement Awards (DGAA).

In 2014, the winning agencies assembled to create the first Best of the Web Snapshot to aggregate challenges, best practices and tactics to be used as a resource for state and local government agencies going forward. 

To learn about the top challenges most commonly experienced when planning, designing and deploying a public-sector website; the tactics that can be used to overcome obstacles; the standards governments should adhere to for all websites; and more, take a look at our snapshot (PDF), and check out some highlights below (click image to enlarge).

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