As we reflect on a successful event at GDS for World Information Architecture Day, find out how information architects’ work to classify, structure and consistently manage content is supporting GOV.UK’s ambitions.
We're really impressed with departmental homepages at the moment. There's some very strong imagery being used, to help engage users and encourage them to explore further. In this post, we thought we'd feature some examples of best practice – and share …
Tomorrow's release of the GOV.UK government app will include the ability to control the order of attachments on a publication page.
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. I'll tell you where you can stick your FOI reference numbers. It's right here, in this metadata field called "Unique reference":
...the new about pages. New design The design has changed considerably, losing lots of white space and positioning the logo (for events that have one) in a less obtrusive place....
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 …
...infrastructure from malicious attacks and to cope with peak demand. The default cache expiry on all existing pages in the government section is currently set to 15 mins. That means...
...png ppt pptx rdf rtf txt xls xlsx xml zip It's likely we'll add more as needed, which means this blog post will date. But you can check the very...
...reasons, and alternative destinations All the acronyms Most government organisations have acronyms and now in most admin drop-downs where you are selecting an org you can use the org's acronym...
...feedback form. It's positioned at the foot of the page, says 'Is there anything wrong with this page?' and looks like this: The mainstream section of GOV.UK has been running...
...To check the status or priority of a given ticket We'll often give you a link to a Pivotal ticket in response to a support request, for example if we...