We're changing how tagging works behind the scenes to allow us to create a single way of categorising content ('taxonomy') for all content on GOV.UK. In October we laid out our plan to improve navigation on GOV.UK. It consists of …
Education is the first theme of the GDS finding things project, and early years is the first content area. As we’ve now completed our audit of the early years content, and it went pretty smoothly, other departments have been asking …
The finding things taxonomy work has completed the first content audit. This involved editors from different organisations reviewing all the content about early years education and childcare provision (eg childminding). Here's how we got on.
We’ve made quite a few improvements and fixes to the GOV.UK search engine this year, even though our main focus has been on improving navigation and how content is organised.
Why is the topic taxonomy important? We want users to be able to find related content across government about a particular topic via a single browse structure. This is central to the vision for improving navigation on GOV.UK, as Ben …
One of the biggest frustrations users sometimes have with GOV.UK is the difficulty of finding what they need - and discovering what they don’t yet know they need - through site search and navigation.
Read the GOV.UK roadmap to find out what the GOV.UK team are working on. It shows what we’ve recently shipped, what we’re working on and what we’re looking into.
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