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How we retired a web application to make GOV.UK simpler to run

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How we retired a web application to make GOV.UK simpler to run

We’ve retired Static, an application that was part of every page on the GOV.UK website. Learn more about how this will save time, streamline our technology, and allow us to make improvements more easily.

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Using the support form

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 25 May 2013 - Categories: Working with us

...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...

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Editing documents scheduled for publication

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 25 May 2013 - Categories: Best practice

...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...

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Getting a GOV.UK blog

Posted by: Graham Francis, Posted on: 24 May 2013 - Categories: Working with us

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 …

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What happened when we changed the Inside Government nav

Posted by: Ashraf Chohan, Posted on: 23 May 2013 - Categories: User insights

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 …

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Adding contact information on an org page

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 10 May 2013 - Categories: Best practice, Product changes

...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...

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Topical event landing pages (updated 11 April 2014)

Posted by: Graham Francis, Posted on: 3 May 2013 - Categories: Product changes

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date.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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Tracking a ticket in Pivotal

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 23 April 2013 - Categories: Working with us

...team works through them in order. Stories in blue are pending. They show in the ‘Icebox’ list. I’ve grouped them into approximate priority groups (P1 = high, P3 = low),...

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Removing content

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 18 April 2013 - Categories: Best practice, Product changes, Working with us

...us to update you on the process for removing content from the frontend… To have content unpublished or deleted send your request via https://www.gov.uk/support/internal. When you submit a request, please...

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Social media icons

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 18 April 2013 - Categories: Product changes

For the first 5 months of Inside Gov’s young life, organisations have only been able to feature 5 links to the social web in the 'follow us' section of their...

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HTML publications

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 28 March 2013 - Categories: Best practice, Product changes

...an ISBN or other reference number. Sometimes they can be ordered in hard copy. We’ll be keeping an eye on the use of the format and reserve the right to...

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