Head of GOV.UK.
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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. From early next week, it will be possible to feature important content on topic pages in the departments and policy section of …
We're a few days into the current sprint. Here's a summary of the improvements you can expect to the departments and policy section and the devolved government publisher. Bug squashing. We've dedicated half a day of each developer's time this …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. A few weeks back we made a change so that it's mandatory to have at least one attached file or HTML version …
No, HTML doesn't feature in the national curriculum (sorry to get your hopes up), but it is in HTML. We're very proud that the programmes of study in the new 2014 national curriculum, published yesterday by the Department for Education …
We have now completed the work to allow more flexible curation of documents into "document series". It's a big change, and should mean that you can make much better use of this format to group related content for your users. …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. When updating a published page in the government ("departments and policy") section of GOV.UK, publishers have a choice of marking their …
Publications, news articles and other documents in the government section can now be tagged directly to relevant topics, instead of the topic being inferred automatically via policies. This is a significant change, so publishers in government organisations may want to …
A while back, we blogged about the caching that's in place and the steps publishers should take to publish time-sensitive content exactly when they need to. We also promised to look into how we might make improvements to reduce the …
Yesterday's release included a new feature to let publishers know the status of uploaded files while they are scanned for viruses. When publishers attach a file to a document, they will now see a message to let them know the …
We're a few days into the current sprint on the government team, which started on 7th August. Between now and the 20th, we'll be making progress on: Significant evolution of document series: the way you add documents to a series is …
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