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.
A bit of clarification on the use of 'quarter' and 'qtr' (or similar)
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We're bringing Inside Government content in line with mainstream on the use of 'quarter' or 'qtr' (when referring to a date …
Sprint ending 25th June
Despite the best of intentions, we didn’t make as much progress on the transition tool last week aswe hoped. Overspill from the previous sprint plus a couple of urgent things that came up during the week pushed the transition tool …
How search works
The improved GOV.UK site search has been up for a few days now. It makes things better for users by headlining the top 3 search results, then showing the rest under just 2 tabs. ‘Services and information’ shows all the mainstream …
Sprint ending 18 June is all about transition
Yesterday was the start of a new sprint. (We plan our work in weekly sprints, which run from Wednesday to Tuesday). The theme of this week’s sprint is transition prep. Bar a handful of other stories (eg to fix a …
Foreign language only documents
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Translated editions of documents have been a feature of Whitehall for some months now. To date, the only way to have …
Duplicate titles in site search
There’s been a GDS team diligently working away improving search on GOV.UK. They’ve asked us to relay some important general advice to Whitehall publishers. They’ve come across several apparent duplicate results while testing site search, which are confusing users. There are two …
Embedding contact information into pages
Inserting contacts into pages just got lots easier. Instead of going to the organisation admin and copying the contact reference markdown to your clipboard, you can now just start typing and then pick the relevant contact from a list. Here’s …
Blog discovery: what you told us
We wrote here last week about the plans for the GOV.UK blogs platform and how to get one. Alongside the technical work being done by dxw, we asked Steph Gray of Helpful Technology to talk to nine ministerial departments with blog platforms to identify the …
Covering rolling news events: Woolwich case study
We wanted to share with others the thoughtful approach that the No10 digital team have taken to covering the recent tragic events in Woolwich on GOV.UK. As the story unfolded, the team decided to keep a single landing page updated with the …
Good news and bad news about email alerts
First the bad news. As many of you will have noticed, we experienced a nasty bug today which meant that email alerts were going out with only the format name and change note for each content item, without a title or …
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