What happens to content from previous governments ('history mode')
This is the first election for which the UK has a single government domain. Here's how we're making it clear what was published under previous governments.
Product changes
Improvements to info pages
During the recent GOV.UK firebreak, we made some improvements to info pages. These are the ‘shadow’ pages that exist for almost every page on GOV.UK. They show user needs for that page and metrics about how well the page meets …
Improving how attachments and change notes display on publication pages
We’ve had some requests from departments to look into improving publication pages. We’ve looked at the data to better understand how publication pages are being used and made changes to the design. We will be rolling these out on GOV.UK …
Restructuring Whitehall publisher so we can keep iterating
As we mentioned in our roadmap update on 21st November, we’ve started a project to restructure and improve the Whitehall publisher. These improvements will pave the way for future development of publishing on GOV.UK. This blog post explains a bit …
Sub-topics, email alerts and the latest view
We know through user research that people with specialist user needs want to see everything about their specialisms. They want to know when content has changed and quickly understand what has changed. So we’ve made a couple of improvements to …
Keeping track of your content
Content designers across government asked for a way to download lists of documents from Whitehall to help them audit their content on GOV.UK. Some departments needed to tidy up content that was migrated during transition, and others need to look …
Improving how we link to local services
We’ve recently simplified the way we link to local services like Report a litter problem, Find out your rubbish collection day and many more. Our colleagues in DCLG got in touch to let us know that when users follow links …
Content and publishing guidance update: 12 November
When we moved our content and publishing guidance into one place, we said we’d let you know every couple of sprints what we’ve done and what we’ll do next. So here’s our latest update. What we did We added: new …
Improvements to smart answers
We’re improving smart answers, both how they’re presented and how they work under the covers. Smart answers are one of the formats we use on GOV.UK to make it easy (or at least, easier) for users to find out what …
Organisation pages: choose your own layout
We've changed organisation pages so you can include either what were called 'featured services and guidance' or 'top tasks' links at the top of the page - but not both.
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