Updating GOV.UK’s crown
Updating GOV.UK’s crown
We have a new crown in our logo for the first time. Find out how we made this change and why.
New broken link checker for checking links before you publish
We've released a broken link checker feature in Whitehall Publisher. When creating or editing content, you should run the broken link checker before you publish. If the checker finds possible broken links in your content, you'll get a warning listing the faulty …
Requesting downtime messages for services
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Downtime messages for services should always be requested through your single point of contact as a content request. This can be …
Improved specialist browse features
In user research we’ve seen that users are finding it hard to scan long A to Z lists of content titles on specialist sub-topic pages. This blog post describes some improvements to specialist browse pages we're making to address this …
Getting a web metrics dashboard up and running
Peter Jordan blogged recently about the new content dashboards. This week John Joseph from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), writes about how he used Google Analytics and a little help from GDS to create dashboards to track and …
Tax discs: how we’re managing the flow of users to a beta service
The renew a tax disc service is one of the most popular services on GOV.UK. We recently redesigned the start page for this transaction to make it easier for visitors to access the new version of this service, whilst keeping the existing service …
How to request the alternative organisation page layout with featured services and guidance
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We recently blogged about the alternative organisation page which displays a list of up to 10 curated top tasks in the …
Official Documents on GOV.UK: publishing responsibilities
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. To everything, there is a season. Including, it would seem, Official Documents. So here’s all you need to know about publishing …
Data visualising: how departmental content is being viewed
We're using a new data visualisation tool called Tableau to reveal new information on how 'departments and policy' content is being viewed on GOV.UK. The GDS departments and policy content team currently uses Google Analytics to track how content is viewed and the effects of …
Publishing an updated GOV.UK proposition
This week we publish a consolidated proposition for GOV.UK in alpha form. We hope that this will help make it clearer which content and services are in scope for GOV.UK, and which are not. This post talks about how we …
Content clinic: 26 June
The next content clinic will be on Thursday 26 June, from 3pm to 4:30pm, at the Department for Transport. We'll then proceed to the pub, where we can answer any questions we don't get time for in the clinic. To …
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