Product changes
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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...
We keep hearing from our editors that you'd like a more flexible document series. At the moment, you can add a title and a summary to a document series, but the documents themselves are automatically grouped by content type and …
Reviewing detailed guides Before we begin the agency transition, GDS has been reviewing the detailed guidance format. We’ve looked closely at the performance data, talked to departments about how they use it, and carried out user testing to see how …
Consultations was one of the themes of our sprint for the government team this fortnight. This included implementing designs that make it clearer what stage a consultation is at (e.g. open, closed and analysing responses, outcome). Feedback vs Outcome We've also tried …
Alongside most 'mainstream' content on GOV.UK, you'll find links to other related items of content. Today, we're making some changes to how they appear.
Tomorrow's release of the GOV.UK government app will include the ability to control the order of attachments on a publication page.
...the new about pages. New design The design has changed considerably, losing lots of white space and positioning the logo (for events that have one) in a less obtrusive place....
...on your content, the status of fact check requests, and notifications of documents newly tagged to your organisation, topic(s) and policies. And, ultimately, we plan to combine data from various...