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.
Redesigning browse
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 …
Nice example of an HTML publication
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 …
Rethinking navigation
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 …
Red asterisks and other innovations in the government publisher
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 …
This sprint: improving publications and consultations
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 …
Collaboration, iteration and new formats
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 …
A slight re-jig of the government navigation header
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 …
Publication pages: how to make them lovely
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. There are a lot of publication pages on GOV.UK: over 40,000 at the last count. They look simple, but it can …
Measuring changes in traffic: how to create a report
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Reports can be created in any standard Google Analytics report. To monitor changes in traffic to individual pages use the All …
Force publish and compare versions - changes to publisher
New 'force publish' tracking As most of you are now probably aware, there is a new prompt when anyone force publishes content. This feature (which went live as last week's newsletter went out) means that anyone who has to force …
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