Helping Veterans Affairs (VA) teams design, build, and launch great digital services that meet the Digital Standards for the Veteran-facing Services Platform.

Contact @ehuntdsva for any questions, comments, or feedback.

• DSVA team: See the repo Wiki for
  • How this Jekyll site is organized
  • How to use Markdown for writing/editing content
  • How to update the modified-date that displays on site pages.
• See CONTRIBUTING for how to contribute content.

This is a Jekyll-built static site.

1. Clone/fork this repo.

2. For best results (urls work correctly), run locally at 127.0.0.1:4000/va-digital-service-handbook/

   bundle exec jekyll serve
   

3. Whenever you make a change to content, also change the modified-date in the yml at the top of the relevant .md file. See Updating Page Dates for more info.

All content is available under the Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal license, except where otherwise stated.

• Jekyll front-end code inspired by login.gov

The Veteran-facing Services Platform is the set of technologies (and processes) that veteran-facing services on the VA.gov website. VA teams who want to release a digital service for veterans using the Veteran-facing Services Platform should use this Handbook to learn how to do that.