Cache in the attic
When we change content on GOV.UK we tell our government colleagues that, “It should be live in about 20 to 30 minutes.” Here’s why.
Making it easier to tag content
The 3 existing ways of tagging things mainstream browse categories, policy areas, topics and subtopics means that tagging is complex and publishers aren’t clear what effect tagging has and where the document will appear. We want to separate the process …
What we're working on: 13 May 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 29 April 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
Severity 1 incident: errors across publishing applications
This post is about a recent incident on the GOV.UK website. For more information on incidents on GOV.UK, you can check the status of the GOV.UK site or read more...
Categorising incidents on GOV.UK
...publish content. We take any problem on GOV.UK very seriously, and so we’ve made sure that we have a framework to refer to when we make decisions about how to...
What we're working on: 29 April 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 15 April 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
Rebuilding GOV.UK’s publishing platform - an update
Posted by:
Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on:
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Categories:
Product changes, Vision and plans
...to provide an update on our progress... To recap, the purpose of rebuilding the platform is to ensure that GOV.UK is scalable, secure and easy to work on. GOV.UK currently...
Making content about debt better through collaboration
Posted by:
Paula Stephenson and Tom Hughes, Posted on:
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Categories:
Content, How we work, Working with us
The Insolvency Service approached us last year with the idea of creating some content to help people in debt find out what options are available to them. We thought it would be useful too, and suggested we develop it together. …
What we’re working on: 15 April 2016
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 1 April 2016, and what we plan to do next. As usual we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
Building a new tagging infrastructure for GOV.UK
We're changing how tagging works behind the scenes to allow us to create a single way of categorising content ('taxonomy') for all content on GOV.UK. In October we laid out our plan to improve navigation on GOV.UK. It consists of …