Best Practices for COVID-19 Government Websites

As a state or local government, it is important to keep your constituents informed with clear, direct information and instructions in this rapidly changing environment of COVID-19. This COVID-19 Website Best Practices Guide will help you understand how to best do this via a public-facing website where you can publish and maintain information, guidance, resources, and news about COVID-19.

๐Ÿ“š How to Use This Resource

  1. Start with the Getting Started guide

  2. Next, understand What Information Should Be on your Site & How to Think about Layout, which includes mockups of a sample state/ local government website & tips on how to organize your information

  3. Browse the links in the Design & Technical Resources section, which is a list of assets, tools, and other resources that can help you build your website and examples of great state/ local government coronavirus websites to reference

  4. Let us know your feedbackarrow-up-right โ€” was this resource helpful? Why or why not?

About this Resource

This resource was created by volunteers with the U.S. Digital Responsearrow-up-right to help federal, state, and local governments to efficiently provide the public with essential coronavirus info. The U.S. Digital Response is a volunteer-run, non-partisan organization that exists to assist the U.S. government in its response to COVID-19. This resource referenced the following materials: (1) digital.govโ€™s guidance for government coronavirus websitesarrow-up-right, (2) coronavirus.govarrow-up-right, a portal for public information that is curated by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Task Force at the White House, working in conjunction with CDC, and (3) CDC Coronavirus Portalarrow-up-right which is the latest public health and safety information from CDC and for the overarching medical and health provider community on COVID-19.

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