Michael Lyons, a content designer at Defra, writes about finding a workaround for splitting tables containing multiple links in Whitehall Publisher. Creating tables in Whitehall Publisher can, initially at least, be vexing. Particularly as the markdown is (understandably) designed to …
For many months, my team have been working on new features to meet user needs that GOV.UK doesn’t currently support and which agencies need before they can transition to GOV.UK. One of these features is a filtered search (popularly known …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've introduced publishing workflow to corporate information pages, for example, 'working for...', 'procurement at...' and 'media enquiries'. Previously, any changes you …
Antony Hopker is Strategic Communications Manager at Education Funding Agency, which manages £54 billion of funding a year to support all state-provided education for 8 million children aged 3 to 16, and 1.6 million young people aged 16 to 19. We …
Our bi-weekly summary of what we’ve done recently to develop GOV.UK, and what’s coming up. What we’ve done In the past couple of weeks, we’ve: launched a tool which lets specialists filter Competition and Markets Authority cases improved specialist browse …
We blogged about our plans for HMRC manuals many months ago, and since then we’ve spoken to more users of the manuals and made minor changes to our designs. Now we’ve started work to put one full manual online in …
In this guest post, Martin Richardson, Digital Services Manager at Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) writes about how analysing the effects of different wording options for their user feedback route helped him understand which version worked best with users. …
The next GDS content clinic is on Wednesday 30 April at the Department for Transport (DFT), 3pm to 4:30pm (we’ve added an extra half hour so we get through more questions). Book a place To request a place for you …
During spot checks of published content against the style guide, the GOV.UK content team looks out for words to avoid, described in the style guide like this: We also lose trust from our users if we write government ‘buzzwords’ and …
On Monday 7th April, late night UK time, a serious bug was disclosed in the OpenSSL software that we (and a great many others) use to secure our websites. The bug was such that it was theoretically possible for third parties …
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