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.
When should you add change notes?
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. When updating a published page in the government ("departments and policy") section of GOV.UK, publishers have a choice of marking their …
Introducing 'done' pages
Government services start and end on GOV.UK. Except, at the moment, that's not usually true. We have consistent 'start' pages acting as the natural entry point for services, but the way users are handled once a transaction is complete is currently rather inconsistent. …
Sprint plan for 3rd-17th September
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What we're working on
Here are some of the biggest things we're working on in the GOV.UK government team this sprint: Allow multiple HTML documents on one publication: before now, HTML documents behaved differently from other attachments on a publication page. You couldn't order …
Multi-disciplinary working and the new Child Benefit tax calculator
We recently introduced a new iteration of the Child Benefit tax calculator on GOV.UK and I wanted to share how we got there. The core team I was part of a small multi-disciplinary team brought together to work on this …
Changes to the government publisher
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Product changes
We've made some big changes to the government publisher today, with the aim of making life easier for editors and improving the quality of publishing on gov.uk/government. Firstly, there are 3 new filters on the left hand side of the …
GOV.UK for Citizen Space users
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Working with us
Many government departments use Citizen Space to host online consultations. We think this is great because we want to encourage running consultations online - and it’s worth mentioning that there are other online participation tools, e.g. SurveyMonkey, for which the …
What is the backlog?
I think one of the most frustrating things that a non-agile team would have to deal with when working with an agile team is the “backlog”. What does it mean when the mainstream team say to someone “we’ve added it …
Barcharts in HTML publications: new feature
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Tables in HTML publications can now be made into barcharts automatically. These charts follow style guide recommendations and are accessible to …
Document series: what the analytics tell us
I’ve been looking at the analytics for document series pages, particularly the distribution of pages, how users were getting to them and where they were going next. This is because, as we wrote recently, the product team are working on …
More flexible tagging to topics
Publications, news articles and other documents in the government section can now be tagged directly to relevant topics, instead of the topic being inferred automatically via policies. This is a significant change, so publishers in government organisations may want to …
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