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The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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. We get asked this a lot. The answer is 500 Mb - which is way more than you should ever need, …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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 …
Over the last two weeks, a small team in GOV.UK Mainstream have been developing new browse pages. We have two challenges 1. Increasingly additional content needs to be linked via the Browse pages 2. Some of the current pages do …
Anyone looking for a new 'go to example' of an HTML publication should check out DVLA's new business plan. We reckon it uses the features well and is pretty good at showing the range of what you can do with …
We've been taking a look at how we use navigation (nav) tags in the HTML of our pages and seen some room for improvement. Nav tags are used to identify blocks of links that share a common navigational theme. For …
Anyone who's been managing content in the government section in the past few days will have noticed a few changes to the publishing interface. Here's a quick round-up and explanation of those changes. Dashboard When you log in to the …
On the GOV.UK government team we're switching to two-week sprints as of tomorrow, Wednesday 3 July. Sprinting for a week at a time made sense while we were in the thick of transitioning the 24 departments. (In reality, we weren't …
We're currently redeveloping the Child Benefit tax calculator, a tool which takes care of a large number of very different user needs. It's the first bespoke calculator for GOV.UK, which will be a move away from the 'choose your own …
The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed we recently re-jigged the order of items in the header of www.gov.uk/government Before: After: On the top row, "Departments", "Topics" and Worldwide" are the three main ways of viewing all aggregated content about …