Discover what we’ve learned in the year since the GOV.UK website fully migrated to Google Analytics 4, and how our use of data is evolving as GOV.UK expands to multiple digital channels.
We want to promote a common strategy for content teams across government. This is so we collectively improve content quality across government and identify and fix those things that stop us from meeting our principles. We need all the content …
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 …
We're changing the policy format to better meet users' needs and get people to what they need faster.
...to make them more user-friendly and bring them in line with GDS design principles. Between the backend and frontend sits the newly developed “write API” that allows HMRC editors to...
...priority) readying the site for the election making it easier for users to find things through site search and navigation making the publishing software simpler and more flexible The April...
“We’re going to split you into groups and get you to do the work.” Words that strike fear into the hearts of conference-goers everywhere, but the delegates at the GDS Content Design Conference were equal to the task.
...departments and policy section of GOV.UK, one weekend my delivery manager Pete unilaterally deleted the backlog I had lovingly groomed. I was furious for weeks, but it turned out to...
...databases simplified the code for finders and integrated them with the new publishing pipeline refactored the layout of all mainstream formats to use the new responsive grid system and addressed...
...wishlist included: better tables, eg adding table editor more flexibility with numbered points the top publication header to be more response to the scale of documents to reduce the size...
...comply with open standards Better for search There’s so much great metadata in HTML publications. We should, of course, make sure that PDFs we publish have this same metadata, but...