New Zealand Government Web Standards

Recommendation 16.1.5 Create a style of presentation that is consistent across pages

New standards released

The New Zealand Web Standards 2.0 were released in March 2009 and replace the previous version, the New Zealand Government Web Standards 1.0 (below).  See Meeting the standards for more information.

The Recommendation

Recommendation 16.1.5 Create a style of presentation that is consistent across pages

Guide to this recommendation

Utilisation of style sheets can assist with this.

Rationale for this recommendation

Consistency makes your site more predictable and helps users to learn how it works, making it easier for them to navigate to the information they want, each time they visit a site. It also helps users to skip unwanted chunks of navigation or content, which makes task completion or information retrieval more efficient.