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We’re back in London for the content clinic this month, which will be held at the Department for Transport on 27 November. It’s a great opportunity to meet other editors, get answers to your questions and tell us more about …
Our second content clinic field trip took us to Sheffield. More than a dozen content designers came together to talk about what works or doesn’t work for them on GOV.UK. Open data formats Linda Humphries spoke again about government taking the …
Three weeks ago we launched revised content and publishing guidance to make it easier for GOV.UK publishers to find information about style, content design and using Whitehall publisher. It’s still a work in progress, so since then we’ve filled in …
This month we’re running a content clinic in Sheffield for the first time. It’s a great opportunity to discuss ideas or issues with other editors, or get answers to your questions from GDS content designers. We’ll also tell you what …
Today we’ve published the beta of our revised publishing guidance in the new manuals format. We’ve created a sub topic ‘Content and publishing’ which we recommend you bookmark. From there you can find 4 manuals: Content design: planning, managing and …
This clinic was a little different from previous ones. There was a lot to show so there were more presentations than usual. Visualising publications data Ashraf Chohan showed visualisations of data about how many publication content items are published and …
The next content clinic will be on Thursday 18 September, from 11:30am to 1:00pm, at the Department for Transport. We can’t head to the pub afterwards, but do bring a lunch. To book a place using Eventbrite, you’ll need the …
On 30 July we held our first content clinic outside London, at the Environment Agency in Bristol. We had over 20 GOV.UK publishers from a number of agencies based in the south-west of England. Here are the answers to some of …
GDS is regularly asked why we encourage the use of blogs over newsletters. We have 2 reasons: blogs perform better than newsletters we don’t publish duplicate content on GOV.UK
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We recently blogged about our checklist for reviewing content and got a lot of questions about sentence length.