Creating the GOV.UK Publishing Design Guide
Creating the GOV.UK Publishing Design Guide
We’ve improved how we work at GOV.UK by creating a new design resource for our teams. Here’s why and how we did it.
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...
Whitehall is getting personal and other new features
Some of the Whitehall team may have been taking a well-deserved holiday but the team has kept plugging away on some cracking new features, performance enhancements and tools to aid...
Linking from one Inside Government [Whitehall] document to another
...previewed URLs because we do not rewrite those links automatically. For example: BOO HISS https://whitehall-admin.production.alphagov.co.uk/travel-insurance?cachebust=1362409293&preview=139044 HURRAY https://whitehall-admin.production.alphagov.co.uk/government/admin/detailed-guides/189802 Note that the correct link contains ‘admin’ and a number, as opposed to...
Using the support form
...not sustainable to deal with these requests directly by phone and email, especially with the hundreds of ALBs soon to join the site. From now on, if you call or...
Editing documents scheduled for publication
...Content which has been scheduled and published will appear all around the site simultaneously at the scheduled time – there won’t be a delay because of the cache. But what...
Getting a GOV.UK blog
We’ve published updated guidance about blogging on GOV.UK. Please go to the new guidance pages to find out how to request a new blog and how to manage a blog. You may also find it useful to read the Government …
What happened when we changed the Inside Government nav
On 9th April we made major changes to the Inside Government navigation bar by 1) exposing the sections rather than nesting them and 2) moving the search query field to the left. This was in response to user testing that …
Adding contact information on an org page
...data lately. Here’s some new information about the stuff we haven’t yet told you about, and a re-cap of what we have. 1. All contact information should now be added...
Topical event landing pages (updated 11 April 2014)
The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. Each year, the Queen's Speech sets out the government's legislative agenda for the coming session of the House of Commons. It’s …
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