A detailed guide is a content type used for answering specific, task-oriented user needs or providing advice to specialist or professional audiences. There are more than 4,000 detailed guides published on GOV.UK, on topics ranging from calculating your school milk …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've made some improvements to the way you show that a document you're publishing to GOV.UK is old. Adding old content …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. If you're a user of the Licensing application and you've allowed your account to be suspended, email licensing-authorities@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk to get it reactivated. GOV.UK uses a …
Why Help us fully understand your publishing needs, and the context in which you work, so that we can build and improve features in Whitehall Publisher. Who Regular users of Whitehall Publisher. What A 1hr, lab-based session. You'll be in …
We've released a broken link checker feature in Whitehall Publisher. When creating or editing content, you should run the broken link checker before you publish. If the checker finds possible broken links in your content, you'll get a warning listing the faulty …
Some things we've done in the past couple of weeks released a new, unified site-search built an Alpha of the first HMRC Manual on GOV.UK started work on a manual format for all departments and agencies to use added editioning …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. All content on GOV.UK should start with needs. Before creating a detailed guide, you must specify the user need. We've released …
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 …
A small team at GDS is working on the User Needs project. The first thing we’re doing is building Maslow - a tool to capture user needs. In the next few weeks, agencies that are transitioning to GOV.UK will be able to …
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