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Testing a new GOV.UK publishing application: Content Block Manager

A content block for Basic State Pension in Content Block Manager, showing the locations it is used across GOV.UK, instances it is used across locations, views in the last 30 days and organisations using the block, as well as title, description and lead organisation

Testing a new GOV.UK publishing application: Content Block Manager

We’ve built an application that allows GOV.UK publishers to create and reuse modular content. Find out how it works, what we’ve learned from testing and what’s next.

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Quarterly update: wrapping up 2016 to 2017 and starting our new roadmap

Posted by: Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on: 21 June 2017 - Categories: Vision and plans, What we're working on
The GOV.UK Template Consolidation team

...to get to the page. They can then aggregate lists of content by page views, time since last update and format type. They can also see other data that is...

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The pre-election period

Posted by: GDS team, Posted on: 21 April 2017 - Categories: GDS team

In the coming weeks, you will notice that it’s much quieter than usual on this blog and all the other blogs run by GDS. It’s because between midnight on Friday, 21 April and the general election on 8 June is …

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Incident roundup - part 2

Posted by: Paul Heron, Posted on: 21 April 2017 - Categories: Incident reports

We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK. This post is a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between August and October 2016. It follows on …

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Incident roundup - part 1

Posted by: Paul Heron, Posted on: 20 April 2017 - Categories: Incident reports

We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK. Every incident teaches us something new about our technology or the way we communicate with each other.

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Making tagging part of publishing

Posted by: Sam Dub, Posted on: 18 April 2017 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes

We’re working to make tagging content to the new taxonomy a simple, routine step in the GOV.UK publishing process. The Finding Things team have been creating the first complete taxonomy for GOV.UK, starting with Education. This taxonomy powers a new …

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Questions to help you define your mission - a thing for product managers

Posted by: Jen Allum - Former Director, GOV.UK, Posted on: 7 April 2017 - Categories: Best practice, How we work

GOV.UK is a busy programme. Every fortnight, we in the programme team check in with our teams to find out what they’ve been up to, what their blockers are, and what they need from us.

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Bigger and better: ConCon5, the 5th cross-government content conference

Posted by: Trisha Doyle, Posted on: 5 April 2017 - Categories: Content, Events
Gerry McGovern speaking at ConCon5

We held the fifth cross-government content conference - ConCon5 - in London on Wednesday 15 March. It was the biggest yet, with over 275 people attending on the day and...

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Guest post: Transition is supporting transformation at Public Health England

Posted by: Rosanna Alam, Posted on: 3 April 2017 - Categories: Content, Transition
PHE and GDS content designers having a chat

...their International Discovery work. And last month, GDS ran 2 user needs workshop days with a number of our legacy site owners to demonstrate why we put users first and...

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New navigation for education content on GOV.UK

Posted by: Holly Garrett, Posted on: 31 March 2017 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes
Screenshot of the new education, training and skills navigation page

The Finding Things team have been working with the Department for Education and agencies to make it easier for people to find what they need on GOV.UK.

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What we’ve been working on: designing GOV.UK

Posted by: Mark Hurrell, Posted on: 30 March 2017 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes
The Finding Things team working on the new navigation

You might have noticed that the design of GOV.UK hasn't changed much for a while. Or at least, not visibly.

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