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Updating the GOV.UK licence finder

Posted by: Jessie Rossington, former Product Manager, GOV.UK and Peter Hartshorn, Developer, GOV.UK, Posted on: 21 December 2023 - Categories: Finding things, What we're working on
A woman holds a smartphone displaying GOV.UK’s ‘Find a licence’ page while standing in front of a laptop which is placed on a table

We’ve launched a new tool to help people find licences for their businesses, homes and other activities. Here’s how we delivered a successful outcome for users and what happens next.

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Building a new tagging infrastructure for GOV.UK

Posted by: Tijmen Brommet, Posted on: 14 April 2016 - Categories: Finding things, Product changes

We're changing how tagging works behind the scenes to allow us to create a single way of categorising content ('taxonomy') for all content on GOV.UK. In October we laid out our plan to improve navigation on GOV.UK. It consists of …

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What happens to content from previous governments ('history mode')

Posted by: Alan Maddrell and Ben Welby, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Product changes
Portrait of Robert Walpole (the first British Prime Minister), workshop of Jean-Baptiste van Loo

This is the first election for which the UK has a single government domain. Here's how we're making it clear what was published under previous governments.

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Improvements to info pages

Posted by: Jake Benilov and Anna Powell-Smith, Posted on: 3 March 2015 - Categories: Product changes

During the recent GOV.UK firebreak, we made some improvements to info pages. These are the ‘shadow’ pages that exist for almost every page on GOV.UK. They show user needs for that page and metrics about how well the page meets …

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Rethinking the GOV.UK policy format: what our users told us

Posted by: Ben Welby, Posted on: 2 March 2015 - Categories: How we work, User insights

We're changing the policy format to better meet users' needs and get people to what they need faster.

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Corporate pages now have workflow

Posted by: Alan Maddrell, Posted on: 7 May 2014 - Categories: Product changes

The information in this blogpost may now be out of date. See the current GOV.UK content and publishing guidance. We've introduced publishing workflow to corporate information pages, for example, 'working for...', 'procurement at...' and 'media enquiries'. Previously, any changes you …

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Whitehall is getting personal and other new features

Posted by: Ross Ferguson, Posted on: 30 May 2013 - Categories: Product changes, Transition

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...

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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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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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