As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK’s ambitions.
We’ve slightly restructured the GDS GOV.UK team. This means that, if you’re a department or agency publishing to GOV.UK, from today you may see a few new faces. This blogpost sets out what’s changing, and why. 2014: a big year …
In the last couple of months, we’ve been researching the needs of specialist users. Specialist users are broadly speaking the users of GOV.UK whose needs are dictated by their specialist interest or profession. As more agencies transition to GOV.UK, the …
We used to have a format called series, which allowed you to create a list of related documents, but this only met the most basic need for viewing related departments and policy content. So in September, we made it possible …
On Monday 3 February, content from the National Archives Official Documents website will move across to GOV.UK. This blog post sets out how organisations publishing to GOV.UK could be affected, and what you may need to do to prepare for …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've had a few questions recently about whether - and where - logos can be used within GOV.UK content and tools. …
We’re holding a SPRINT GO event next Thursday, 30 January, about the transition to GOV.UK of more than 300 agencies and arm’s length bodies (ALBs). This half-day event will bring together colleagues from government departments, agencies and ALBs across England …
What are they? Topics are the top-level groupings of information in the departments and policy area of GOV.UK. They give users an overview of government activity in a particular area, allowing them to understand what the government is doing without …
GOV.UK offers government organisations a range of options to support promotions and marketing campaigns. This blogpost gives examples of what we offer, and discusses when each type might be used. It should be read alongside the recently-published guidelines for campaign sites. …
Some of you may have noticed that we've deleted the long list of user stories in the "icebox" of our public Pivotal Tracker project for the Departments and Policy section of GOV.UK and corresponding publishing tool. Don't worry, none of your …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve been asked recently what type of organisation gets a presence on GOV.UK - and what sort of presence they get. …