Head of GOV.UK.
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Some of you may have noticed that we've deleted the long list of user stories in the "icebox" of our public Pivotal Tracker project for the Departments and Policy section of GOV.UK and corresponding publishing tool. Don't worry, none of your …
A great thing about having lots of government organisations publishing content in one place is the ability to see how the various parts of the machine fit together. GOV.UK offers a few ways for users to do just that, for …
We've added social media sharing buttons to 4 formats in the departments and policy section. If you look at the end of any consultation, news story, press release or world location news page you will now see sharing buttons to post …
The majority of problems reported by users on the departments and policy section of GOV.UK are about bad links. In the last couple of days, we've added validation checks to make sure all links created using markdown in the departments …
Update 27 November: we're aware of a few teething issues arising from the recent change to supporting detail pages, and are working on fixing those as fast as we can. Here's a list of the known issues.
Since it launched nearly a year ago, the departments and policy section of GOV.UK has included a publicly viewable change history on all pages, including a note from the editor as to what has changed (a bit like a Git …
This is a guest post by Neil Williams, GOV.UK product manager, about his experience of moving to a single government site. Hello, I’m Neil Williams, the product manager in charge of the departments and policy section of GOV.UK. I recently …
Here is a list of smaller features we've shipped in the past month or so which government publishers will want to know about. Support for unique logos. Organisations which have been granted exemption from the single government identity system can …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. From today, the "series" format in the departments and policy section will metamorphose to become "collections". This post contains essential information for publishers …
The ability to feature content on topic pages is now available. It was deployed to production early last week. We're keen to see the impact this change will have on bounce rates on topic pages. User research and analytics tell us …
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