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.
Do people read your emails?
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User insights
Like a lot of teams working in government departments, we send round regular update emails to a large group. Often, we don't hear anything back. Is this because people aren't interested, or because we're giving them all the information they …
Agencies and arm’s length bodies: transition to GOV.UK
The first government agencies have now started their move onto GOV.UK. There's a big challenge ahead. This stage of the transition will bring more than 300 agencies and arm’s length bodies (ALBs) into a single website, GOV.UK. Once it's completed, GOV.UK will see …
Mapping how users get to government content on GOV.UK
Visualising analytics data can help us see trends and gain insights into things that aren’t possible to see just by looking at the numbers in our standard analytics interface. The diagram above (and here in an interactive form) is one …
Updating smart answers and calculators
There are 3 main reasons why smart answers, tools and calculators take longer to update than normal (what we call flat) content. They are often more complicated This isn’t to say that flat content isn’t complicated - translating complex tax …
Lost for words: Google stops providing keywords
We have evangelised about the importance of analysing search data to help define user needs and measure the effectiveness of GOV.UK content. Unfortunately, one of the most important sources of data is drying up: what people searched for in Google …
Coming in this sprint: featuring on topics, changes to HTML publications and more
We're a few days into the current sprint. Here's a summary of the improvements you can expect to the departments and policy section and the devolved government publisher. Bug squashing. We've dedicated half a day of each developer's time this …
Top task links: updated guidance
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. So over the past few weeks, we’ve been talking to a bunch of government organisations about updating your homepages to follow …
Why attachments/HTML versions are now mandatory on publications
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. A few weeks back we made a change so that it's mandatory to have at least one attached file or HTML version …
The HTML curriculum
No, HTML doesn't feature in the national curriculum (sorry to get your hopes up), but it is in HTML. We're very proud that the programmes of study in the new 2014 national curriculum, published yesterday by the Department for Education …
Improving browse and navigation
In the last few weeks, we've been taking a look at how people browse and navigate GOV.UK. We've just made a start with some HTML prototypes and research in the usability lab.
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