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.
Avoiding 'words to avoid'
During spot checks of published content against the style guide, the GOV.UK content team looks out for words to avoid, described in the style guide like this: We also lose trust from our users if we write government ‘buzzwords’ and …
GOV.UK and the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug
On Monday 7th April, late night UK time, a serious bug was disclosed in the OpenSSL software that we (and a great many others) use to secure our websites. The bug was such that it was theoretically possible for third parties …
Unpublishing, deleting and archiving: how and when (updated)
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Removing unnecessary departmental and policy content improves the user experience of GOV.UK. Clearing up unloved legacy content is always a good …
How to request a short url
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We often get asked by departments and agencies if they can have short URLs on GOV.UK. This blog post explains when we …
How to make requests for changes to mainstream content
Working in sprints means we can respond quickly to changing priorities. This is vital when working on content for government. It also means that there’s no need for departments to send through content requests months in advance. There are 3 …
What’s new and what’s coming up: GOV.UK weeknotes (4 April)
A summary of the changes we’ve made to the GOV.UK site since mid-March, and what we’ve got planned up until Easter. What we’ve done In the past couple of weeks, we’ve: successfully moved GOV.UK publishing systems to a new hosting …
Your new favourite group
In January of this year, Graham wrote a blog post about GOV.UK organisation types. He outlined the 3 types of page available to groups of people below the level of the organisation (but not meeting the criteria for high profile …
Content clinic 2: questions from editors
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. GDS held the second content clinic on 24 March, which 24 departmental and agency editors came to. Here are answers to …
Statistics on the homepage
The existing homepage didn't make it clear that government statistics are produced independently of ministers. We've changed it for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the heading 'Departments and policy' was misleading because the section includes other agencies and public bodies. Secondly, …
Search engines: what happens when your content moves
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We’re hearing some concerns about how moving to GOV.UK will affect your visibility in search engines. In fact, we think many organisations are likely to benefit from the strength of the single government domain. GOV.UK’s status as a large, authoritative …
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