Before Christmas, Neil blogged about how we’d introduced social sharing buttons as an experiment to four of our content types. Now we’ve had the chance to look at the first 10 weeks of data, we wanted to report back. Why …
GOV.UK has over 116,000 items of content in departmental and policy areas. It’s vital that each one of these meets a user need and doesn’t duplicate any other content item. Maintaining consistency across policies and departments is essential to earn users’ trust. …
For most questions you have during your transition, you'll need to contact your transition manager directly. Questions about how to publish content If you have a problem with using the publishing tool, first check the publisher manual. If you are …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've been piloting an editorial quality report for departments to help maintain the content’s clarity and usability. These reports are a …
The slides from the SPRINT GO workshops are now available. If you weren't able to make the event on 30 January, or want to refer back to the workshops, here are the full presentations. Agile for everyone, by Amy Wagner: …
Update: as part of our migration work to make our frontend architecture simpler, we will be removing the business support API. See Tim's blog post for more details and dates you need to know.
Over the next few months a huge number of agencies and arms length bodies will move to GOV.UK and it’s our job to make sure all the old links to these sites continue to work. Sites like the Environment Agency …
SPRINT GO took place on Thursday 30 January at the London Film Museum. Colleagues from across agencies and arm’s length bodies came together to talk, share and learn about GOV.UK. The SPRINT GO event was also a launch of a …
We’ve slightly restructured the GDS GOV.UK team. This means that, if you’re a department or agency publishing to GOV.UK, from today you may see a few new faces. This blogpost sets out what’s changing, and why. 2014: a big year …
In the last couple of months, we’ve been researching the needs of specialist users. Specialist users are broadly speaking the users of GOV.UK whose needs are dictated by their specialist interest or profession. As more agencies transition to GOV.UK, the …