We’re trying to make it quicker to update content on GOV.UK. We’re doing this by talking to each other more when we write content, which is making our work better and cutting down the time our editing process takes.
The Finding Things team held a tagging day on 9 January 2017 to connect the education-related content to the draft new taxonomy. Publishers look at each of their pages and choose tags like "Early years funding" and "Phonics".
Here’s an update on what GOV.UK has been up to in the third quarter (Q3) of this financial year (October to December), and our plans for the last quarter (now until April).
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 13 January 2017, and what we plan to do next. As usual, we’ve divided the work up into lists of what we’ve been doing to …
One of the aims for the GOV.UK roadmap this year was to understand more about how digital tools could improve consultations. In Q3 of this year we hired The Democratic Society and Snook to carry out a 6 week discovery.
There are great teams building online services all over government - but the success of those services depends on how they work as part of users' whole experience. Things fall down if a government letter or helpline tells users something …
I’m Rob and I work on website transition at the Government Digital Service (GDS). I’m part of a small, new team tasked with closing old or out-of-date government websites. Where appropriate, the transition content team will also be creating new …
We’re trying to fix the marriage abroad smart answer on GOV.UK. The content isn’t helping users get the answers they need and the way we make changes to it is slow and laborious.
The 'getting married abroad smart answer' helps British nationals find out if and how they can get married in another country.
This is a list of what we’ve been working on since the last update on 9 December 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 …