Product changes
We’ve recently been working on a tool called the business finance and support finder. It’s designed to help visitors find government funding and support for their business and was in need of a review having not been worked on for …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. From today, the "series" format in the departments and policy section will metamorphose to become "collections". This post contains essential information for publishers …
The ability to feature content on topic pages is now available. It was deployed to production early last week. We're keen to see the impact this change will have on bounce rates on topic pages. User research and analytics tell us …
Improving the effectiveness of detailed guides has been a priority of ours for some time now. In particular we've been working with departments to move the content that was either not meeting a clear user need or not guidance from …
We have now completed the work to allow more flexible curation of documents into "document series". It's a big change, and should mean that you can make much better use of this format to group related content for your users. …
Government services start and end on GOV.UK. Except, at the moment, that's not usually true. We have consistent 'start' pages acting as the natural entry point for services, but the way users are handled once a transaction is complete is currently rather inconsistent. …
We've made some big changes to the government publisher today, with the aim of making life easier for editors and improving the quality of publishing on gov.uk/government. Firstly, there are 3 new filters on the left hand side of the …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Tables in HTML publications can now be made into barcharts automatically. These charts follow style guide recommendations and are accessible to …
Publications, news articles and other documents in the government section can now be tagged directly to relevant topics, instead of the topic being inferred automatically via policies. This is a significant change, so publishers in government organisations may want to …
Yesterday's release included a new feature to let publishers know the status of uploaded files while they are scanned for viruses. When publishers attach a file to a document, they will now see a message to let them know the …