Social media icons
For the first 5 months of Inside Gov’s young life, organisations have only been able to feature 5 links to the social web in the 'follow us' section of their respective homepages. They were able to link to one account …
Neil Williams
Head of GOV.UK.
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HTML publications
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We told you not to use HTML publications until they were a bit more developed. They are now a bit more …
Translating into Welsh
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. With the Wales Office’s move to GOV.UK imminent, we’ve been working on the ability to translate various bits of content across …
Document types in a series
A couple of weeks back we made a substantial change to the document series format. Whereas previously you could only group publications and statistical datasets into series, now you can also add: consultations news articles case studies speeches detailed guides …
Uploading multiple file attachments in bulk
...facility. Liz has written these more detailed instructions on how to use it: What it’s for The bulk uploader lets you upload multiple files as attachments on a page. Acceptable...
Anchor links to use on org pages
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. These are the anchor links that are available on organisation pages. You can link to them inline where it’s helpful to …
The URN field on a publication
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. I’ve been asked what the URN (unique reference number) field is for on publications and whether there is any guidance for …
Content formats
...create a separate ‘guidance’ publication for any guidance that belongs with the form). Statistics Official statistics, of the kind governed by the UK Statistics Authority and produced by members of...
High profile units within organisations
...department, agency or NDPB) means that they have all the features of a standard org, except: they are not listed on the organisations page, and instead are listed at the...
Groups
Another new feature we squeezed in between the DFT/DCLG launch and the BIS/MOD/FCO/AGO launch is a thing called “Groups”. It’s an evolution to the way we are modelling government leaders as people and roles (eg minister, permanent secretary, senior official etc) …
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