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.
This sprint for gov.uk/government: previewing CSVs and Worldwide surveys
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What we're working on
Here are some of the most significant things we're working on in the government section of GOV.UK this sprint: Adding footnotes to detailed guides and HTML publications Creating a preview to allow users to see the contents of a CSV …
Transition programme stages: a make-over
Like all good agile teams, we've been making some steady and incremental improvements to the transition programme and processes. Most of our changes have been made to simplify our stages and to help us prioritise and track agencies and arm’s …
GOV.UK best links: agile, show and tell, and the birth of Maslow
This round-up provides links to blog posts and other sites that are particularly useful during transition. Agile In addition to user needs, agile project management runs at the core of the GDS approach to programme delivery. At GDS, agile is …
A clearer interface for "change notes"
Since it launched nearly a year ago, the departments and policy section of GOV.UK has included a publicly viewable change history on all pages, including a note from the editor as to what has changed (a bit like a Git …
Change on the inside: a talk by Neil Williams
This is a guest post by Neil Williams, GOV.UK product manager, about his experience of moving to a single government site. Hello, I’m Neil Williams, the product manager in charge of the departments and policy section of GOV.UK. I recently …
GOV.UK blogs: the user manual
We’ve published updated guidance about blogging on GOV.UK. Please go to the new guidance pages to find out how to request a new blog and how to manage a blog. You may also find it useful to read the Government …
Translations: encore plus qu'avant
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Alice Newton - former Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Product changes
Since we added the Worldwide section in March, GOV.UK has supported translation for world locations, world organisations, world location news articles, worldwide priorities, as well as publications and news stories. You can toggle to the translated version of content by …
Clock changes and the Fire Kills campaign
The end of British Summer Time generates a sudden and predictable peak of visitors for GOV.UK. Two interesting points emerged this year: what happens when Google seeks to answer a user's need itself, and how effective is the cross-promotion of …
Using commercial images on GOV.UK: draft standards
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’ve been asked a few questions recently about copyright on commercial images used on GOV.UK. And we’ve worked with colleagues at …
How to make a collection
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. In response to Alice and Neil’s blog post introducing collection pages, we received some Zendesk tickets asking for help making document …
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