‘Auto suggest’ was our attempt to second guess the answer a user wants based on the first few letters they type into a GOV.UK search box. We've had several people...
A few months ago I wrote about how we're using search analytics and SEO (or Search Engine Optimisation for all the non-robots out there) to make sure that people get the right answer quickly when they look for government information using …
...would be the easiest way for people to find information, so we promoted that on the homepage. But in testing the site, we started to find something else. Over time...
Today we’ve released some quite big changes to GOV.UK designed to make it easier to find content, and to find your way around. I’m here to to give an overview of what’s changed and why, and then others in the …
It's been just over a year since we began working on the GOV.UK beta website, and accessibility has been an important part of our activity during that time. As expert consultant on the project, I've been working with GOV.UK's accessibility …
Here’s a round up of some of the things we’ve been up to over the last week in the GOV.UK team The editorial team published their 1358th piece of content...
...and to the world - and videos like this are a great way of introducing our people and showing what goes on behind the scenes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymQc7fF_XCc Next up - Finance!...
One of the first headings in the GOV.UK editorial style guide is ‘Ever-changing style guide’. And it has just changed again. Biggest change for GOV.UK The biggest change is more...
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been visiting some of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) operations staff, who have given us really useful feedback about GOV.UK.
Rather than running our own room full of servers, or worrying too much about physical computers, we have chosen to run GOV.UK on an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. What does that mean and why did we make that …
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
