Product changes
We’re shortly releasing an update to GOV.UK search that we are calling ‘unified search’. This update presents search results from all of GOV.UK in a single list, rather than the tabbed page layout separating the ‘Services and information’ content from …
For many months, my team have been working on new features to meet user needs that GOV.UK doesn’t currently support and which agencies need before they can transition to GOV.UK. One of these features is a filtered search (popularly known …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've introduced publishing workflow to corporate information pages, for example, 'working for...', 'procurement at...' and 'media enquiries'. Previously, any changes you …
In January of this year, Graham wrote a blog post about GOV.UK organisation types. He outlined the 3 types of page available to groups of people below the level of the organisation (but not meeting the criteria for high profile …
The existing homepage didn't make it clear that government statistics are produced independently of ministers. We've changed it for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the heading 'Departments and policy' was misleading because the section includes other agencies and public bodies. Secondly, …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. In February we blogged about our work to get GOV.UK ready for the third big group of users, specialist users. Specialists …
We’re upgrading our publishing systems on the evening of Tuesday 25 March. This blogpost tells you what’s happening, and the arrangements for emergency publishing during this period. Planned downtime: 6pm Tuesday 25 March to 9am Wednesday 26 March On the …
Earlier this week the GOV.UK Specialist team released a small but important feature to a number of pages in the Departments and Policies section of the site. Simply put, we have added a ‘See all’ link to the end of …
The current list of publication sub-types was based on the things that central government departments publish: Now that hundreds of agencies and arm’s length bodies are moving to GOV.UK, it’s time to revisit this list, and make sure it reflects …
We’ve been running a few sessions with government organisations to look at how we can more clearly communicate developments to GOV.UK. In response, we’re introducing some changes to this blog. ‘Publishing essentials’: only get emails about the really important stuff The …