The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Removing unnecessary departmental and policy content improves the user experience of GOV.UK. Clearing up unloved legacy content is always a good …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We often get asked by departments and agencies if they can have short URLs on GOV.UK. This blog post explains when we …
Working in sprints means we can respond quickly to changing priorities. This is vital when working on content for government. It also means that there’s no need for departments to send through content requests months in advance. There are 3 …
A summary of the changes we’ve made to the GOV.UK site since mid-March, and what we’ve got planned up until Easter. What we’ve done In the past couple of weeks, we’ve: successfully moved GOV.UK publishing systems to a new hosting …
In January of this year, Graham wrote a blog post about GOV.UK organisation types. He outlined the 3 types of page available to groups of people below the level of the organisation (but not meeting the criteria for high profile …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. GDS held the second content clinic on 24 March, which 24 departmental and agency editors came to. Here are answers to …
The existing homepage didn't make it clear that government statistics are produced independently of ministers. We've changed it for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the heading 'Departments and policy' was misleading because the section includes other agencies and public bodies. Secondly, …
We’re hearing some concerns about how moving to GOV.UK will affect your visibility in search engines. In fact, we think many organisations are likely to benefit from the strength of the single government domain. GOV.UK’s status as a large, authoritative …
...policy content that sponsoring departments already have on the site, or by creating a new supporting page. Policy supporting pages (also called 'supporting detail') are where the department and, by...
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. In February we blogged about our work to get GOV.UK ready for the third big group of users, specialist users. Specialists …
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