The background is gray. The home page displays one graphic, and many of the pages are text only. The country and state flag pages provide multiple graphics of flags in their development stages.
Users can search for information on flags by country, geography, keyword, or title.
Each page of information lists a history of the development of the flag. The site also maintains a list of newly created or changed flags. The site contains more than 1,400 pages and over 2,000 images. Much of the information at the site comes from news and images posted to the FOTW mailing list and from user contributions. The site maintains a list of flags that have been newly created or have undergone recent changes because of a government change.