Welcome to developer.virginia.govYour Toolbox for Virginia Websites

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Developer.virginia.gov is your online source for tools and tips to best digitally connect Virginians to your agency’s services through an accessible, consistent, secure and engaging website.

What’s New

The Virginia IT Agency has recently launched website translation services through Smartling. Your agency will receive outreach on how to get connected very soon. Smartling will translate your agency’s websites into 11 languages based on Virginia’s population. Learn more. 

Coming Soon

The Commonwealth Design System will soon be available – a new, overarching style guide to web development, including common templates and design parameters to use with your custom agency content. 

This website is a one-stop destination which will include official direction, news and guidance. It’s also your spot to ask questions, make suggestions and find the right contact for help. 

Bookmark this site. More content will be added as the program matures. Timelines for procurements, purchases and implementations vary, and many elements are still being finalized. You’ll find them here once completed.

Vision

Virginia’s web technologists will create and maintain web-based content for Virginians in a manner that is accessible, consistent, creative, and secure. 

Strategy

Consistency

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To produce a consistent and homogenous appearance for COV web systems across all Commonwealth agency websites

Accessible

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To produce web content that is accessible by all citizens of the Commonwealth.

Authenticity

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To establish a sense of authenticity through consistency in domain naming, ensuring citizens that information being provided comes from a trusted source

Security

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To ensure that COV web systems are secure from harm against cybersecurity attacks