Community Updates

GitHub Best Practices

The Office of Digital Services (ODS) at California Department of Technology (CDT) recommends the following practices Best practices for GitHub Repos (Best practices for repositories - GitHub Docs) Create a README file to make it easier for people to...

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Five Digital Mistakes to avoid in 2023

Author: Koji Kumpulainien Disclaimer! It’s OK to make mistakes Do your best not to break these specific rules Innovation often requires us to break the rules Mistake 1 CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)...

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jQuery-less State Template Release v5.6.0

jQuery-less State Template Release v5.6.0

Release v5.6.0 is the first jQuery-less version of the state web template. This version has no more jQuery dependency and jQuery plugins. In this version we also introducing a new responsive font size calculation functionality. Body text and headings font sizes and...

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How to Stop Search Engine Crawlers From Crawling Your Site

There are times when we don't want Google, Bing, etc. to crawl our website into their search index. This is a common issue for new websites in development, or for ongoing websites that are being redesigned. This "new" website typically resides under a development URL...

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Governor Banner Update

Governor Banner Update

Hello and Happy New Year! We finally have updates on the incoming governor banner as many of you have been requesting. All of the details can be found on this web standards page. Thanks for your cooperation!  

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How to remove ads from your Google search results

How to remove ads from your Google search results

Government Edition for Custom Search Engine is now available for free without ads for Government agencies or bodies at any level (federal, state, local, or tribal). Please use the following form to start the process. Please note that the free usage of Custom Search...

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