Rules for designing, building and administrating websites

The Web Guidelines deal with designing, building and administrating websites. They are based on international quality and accessibility standards as well as on practically proven solutions by professionals. The Web Guidelines comprise all the important guidelines for a high-quality website.

Contents of the Web Guidelines

In summary, the Web Guidelines deal with building quality, accessibility and customer-friendliness.

  • Building quality: complying with web standards

    If your website is technically sound, it will perform properly for all your visitors, regardless of whether they use an Apple computer or a PC, have a screen reader or browse your website on their mobile phones.

  • Accessibility for people and search engines

    An accessible website can be used by anyone, including people who cannot see or hear (well), have difficulty understanding complicated texts or are unable to use a mouse. For instance, think of people who are (colour) blind, deaf, people who are dyslectic and people whose grasp of your website's primary language is less than perfect. Moreover, an accessible website can be easily 'read' by search engines and thus is found faster.

  • Customer- and user-friendliness

    Your visitors benefit from your offering alternative contacting options and explaining clearly how they may undo errors they have made. Other examples include the use of friendly web addresses and creating modified error pages.

What can you do with it?

Thus, the Web Guidelines are a useful tool to ensure that your website is functional for everyone and has been built in a modern way. And there is more: for instance, your website becomes faster and easier to find in search engines. Have a look at the benefits.