For some time now we’ve been working on rebuilding GOV.UK’s publishing platform. This post updates on what we’ve done so far, what’s left to do, and goes into more detail about the why - explaining the benefits of this work, …
We're changing how tagging works behind the scenes to allow us to create a single way of categorising content ('taxonomy') for all content on GOV.UK. In October we laid out our plan to improve navigation on GOV.UK. It consists of …
To help us analyse and measure the performance of our content we use Google Analytics, which records the pages users visit. This year we’ve made improvements to GOV.UK that allows us to comprehensively record information about users’ interactions across the …
The GDS content team are believers in iteration and continuous improvement. We spend a lot of time iterating: making improvements to GOV.UK's content based on user research and insight from analytics. But what do you do when you’ve got a …
At GOV.UK, one of our priorities until the end of March is rebuilding our publishing tools. This is so that it will be easier to improve them in the future, and make them reusable for third parties. As part of …
We’ve made quite a few improvements and fixes to the GOV.UK search engine this year, even though our main focus has been on improving navigation and how content is organised.
In the Core team (one of 4 product teams at GOV.UK) we look after the development and maintenance of many applications behind GOV.UK, including Whitehall Publisher. We collect lots of data about the usage of GOV.UK and how it performs …
At the recent Content Conference we ran a session with editors in government to help them better understand how product decisions are made in GOV.UK. We received a lot of positive feedback from content designers saying that they found the insights …
We've blogged about how we're bringing our different subject taxonomies together and allowing content designers to tag with a single topic, describing what the content is about. We also have to work out how to present topic pages to users …
Why is the topic taxonomy important? We want users to be able to find related content across government about a particular topic via a single browse structure. This is central to the vision for improving navigation on GOV.UK, as Ben …
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