The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've been piloting an editorial quality report for departments to help maintain the content’s clarity and usability. These reports are a …
We’ve slightly restructured the GDS GOV.UK team. This means that, if you’re a department or agency publishing to GOV.UK, from today you may see a few new faces. This blogpost sets out what’s changing, and why. 2014: a big year …
What are they? Topics are the top-level groupings of information in the departments and policy area of GOV.UK. They give users an overview of government activity in a particular area, allowing them to understand what the government is doing without …
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 …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve been asked recently what type of organisation gets a presence on GOV.UK - and what sort of presence they get. …
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 …
There has been a noticeable slowdown in the pace of new features on the departments and policy publishing platform. Not that we've been resting on our laurels, far from it. Instead we’ve taken a conscious decision to spend some time …
We publish over 100 changes to content every week to the ‘services and information’ section of GOV.UK alone. This means we get 100 chances to improve the content. But it also means there are over 100 opportunities for GOV.UK to …
As important as it is to highlight the successes of GOV.UK, it's just as important that we discuss our mistakes. A little over a week ago we began receiving reports of attachments that were incorrectly ordered on the site, or …
A year ago today - at around 4am in fact - GOV.UK came out of beta, becoming the best place to find government services and information. Twelve months on, and we have 1000 publishers using the platform, six million visitors …
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