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.
About pages and other changes to topical events
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've continued to make incremental improvements to the topical events format in the past couple of months. Here's a quick round-up …
Coups and cups: how external events affect traffic to GOV.UK
So, how many people would rather watch Wimbledon than visit a government website? Over the past few weeks we've been trying to find out the answer to this - and similar questions - as we've looked at how external events …
Caches, scheduled publishing and consultations (updated 7 May 2014)
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've seen a few cases recently of people misunderstanding or being unaware of the way pages are cached, and publications or …
What file formats do we support?
This is another of those questions we get asked a lot, so here's the answer for all to see. We currently support: csv doc docx jpg kml ods odt pdf png ppt pptx rdf rtf txt xls xlsx xml zip …
Features round up for Inside Government (26 June - 9 July 2013)
Here's a 1 minute and 2 seconds round up of Inside Government features released in our last sprint. Step back in time If a user searches for a document published before 2010 on GOV.UK and can't find it, we now …
Report a problem on Inside Government
Inside Government has fallen in to line with the rest of GOV.UK by rolling out the 'report a problem' feature to every page. This reduces the steps a user has to take to report mistakes or issues they encounter on …
Ways to use Pivotal Tracker
In my recent tour of departments, several people found it helpful to hear a bit more about how we're using Pivotal Tracker within GOV.UK's government team to manage our product backlog.
What's the max file size for attachment uploads?
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We get asked this a lot. The answer is 500 Mb - which is way more than you should ever need, …
How to use analytics to test a hypothesis: Universal Credit case study
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We’re always looking at the data to see how our content is performing. The tools we’ve built show us trends and …
Being Zen about Zendesk
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. One of the main ways suggestions for content amendments or additions gets fed into our team is through our online request-handling …
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GOV.UK’s strategy for growth
GOV.UK is moving to be multi-channel. Learn more about our priorities by reading our strategy for growth.
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