Using topic pages to organise content on GOV.UK
Users can struggle to find what they need when they navigate through GOV.UK. Topic pages will help them find what they're looking for more easily.
Users can struggle to find what they need when they navigate through GOV.UK. Topic pages will help them find what they're looking for more easily.
We've been working on improving the tools government organisations use to publish content, and the way they use data to make sure that content stays useful.
For the past few weeks, we've been working on making improvements to the GOV.UK publishing pipeline. Here's what we've done so far and what's coming next.
Over the coming months, we are working to improve sections of GOV.UK that relate to government departments and agencies (what we define as ‘organisations’).
One of the objectives of our Q2 mission was to create documentation for the GOV.UK content application programming interface (API). This is a public API that allows machines to access and republish GOV.UK content. Before we started the project The …
Over three quarters of a million people use GOV.UK emails to find out when content is published or updated on the site. We used to use an external service to send these. We've built a system using GOV.UK Notify, a …
The GOV.UK Publishing Frontend team has created tools to help developers and designers ensure a consistent user interface across the site. We’ve already reduced the number of templates and design patterns used on GOV.UK. Now we’ve created a style guide …
Over 700,000 people receive email updates from GOV.UK. These notifications help people find out when government information they’re interested in changes. At GOV.UK, we’re working on making it easier for people to sign up to receive the notifications they need, …
The GOV.UK Infrastructure team maintain and improve the systems that create GOV.UK. This includes the GOV.UK website as well as the tools used by publishers and developers. Earlier this year we ran a discovery and alpha into hosting and deploying …
When we first created GOV.UK we did it based on the assumption that users shouldn’t need to know who provides a service to be able to use it. Users just want to complete a task - they shouldn’t have to …