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.
We have a new crown in our logo for the first time. Find out how we made this change and why.
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
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 …
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 …
A while back, we blogged about the caching that's in place and the steps publishers should take to publish time-sensitive content exactly when they need to. We also promised to look into how we might make improvements to reduce the …
Usually, users want to see the latest and most up to date information on a given policy, announcement, consultation etc. But they may also want to know how it has changed. We have this information, because our publishing tool requires …
On 23 July, GOV.UK released the latest version of its homepage: As Stephen McCarthy explained in his post, this revision followed the move of many more organisations to GOV.UK. We wanted to help users find information from government departments more …
Yesterday's release included a new feature to let publishers know the status of uploaded files while they are scanned for viruses. When publishers attach a file to a document, they will now see a message to let them know the …
I am a member of the GOV.UK User Support team, responsible for improving the [government-only] support form (found at https://www.gov.uk/support/internal). Back in April, we described the process for removing content from the frontend. To make this process easier, we have now added …
We're a few days into the current sprint on the government team, which started on 7th August. Between now and the 20th, we'll be making progress on: Significant evolution of document series: the way you add documents to a series is …
We keep hearing from our editors that you'd like a more flexible document series. At the moment, you can add a title and a summary to a document series, but the documents themselves are automatically grouped by content type and …