Making it quicker and easier to search on GOV.UK
Making it quicker and easier to search on GOV.UK
We’ve made some changes to the interface of site search on GOV.UK to create a simpler, more user-friendly experience.
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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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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
This sprint for gov.uk/government: better policy detail and tagging to topics
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What we're working on
Here are the most significant things we’re working on in the government section of GOV.UK in this sprint: Improve policy supporting detail pages. The supporting detail pages for policies explain the government schemes used to implement each policy. For example, on the …
News analysis: early edition
We’ve just started to look in a bit more detail about how users are interacting with news pages on GOV.UK. But we already have some interesting early findings, which we wanted to share. Our data is based on the 608 …
Coming up in the next fortnight in the transition team
Here are some of the things we're working on over the next couple of weeks: Prioritisation The team is continuing to prioritise the transition timeline for all 330+ agencies and arm’s length bodies (AALBs). With department leads, we are prioritising …
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