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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've continued to make incremental improvements to the topical events format in the past couple of months. Here's a quick round-up …
Anyone who's been managing content in the government section in the past few days will have noticed a few changes to the publishing interface. Here's a quick round-up and explanation of those changes. Dashboard When you log in to the …
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed we recently re-jigged the order of items in the header of www.gov.uk/government Before: After: On the top row, "Departments", "Topics" and Worldwide" are the three main ways of viewing all aggregated content about …
New 'force publish' tracking As most of you are now probably aware, there is a new prompt when anyone force publishes content. This feature (which went live as last week's newsletter went out) means that anyone who has to force …
The improved GOV.UK site search has been up for a few days now. It makes things better for users by headlining the top 3 search results, then showing the rest under just 2 tabs. ‘Services and information’ shows all the mainstream …
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