Posts about the development and iteration of the GOV.UK website. You can find more information for GOV.UK publishers on the Inside GOV.UK blog.
As departments move from publishing on separate websites to publishing on GOV.UK, each of them will be contributing to a comprehensive set of web pages that explain government policies clearly, consistently, and all in one place. Doing this is difficult, …
As one of the editors working on Inside government, visiting departments to introduce people to the platform can be really rewarding. Last month I went to the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to help them with their final preparations …
At GDS we intend the web to be the primary platform for publishing things like policy, speeches and detailed guidance, with any print documents taking a supporting role. As a consequence legibility online becomes hugely important, because the reader will …
...the work we do and for the Department for Transport on a wider basis. We publish a lot of statistics about the work we do, and about driving tests, and...
...yet still provide the detail when you need it. Example of hover on our daily visitors graph There’s another bonus to having these hovers - they encourage people to interact...
In several recent posts about the upcoming release of Inside Government we’ve linked in passing to this little blog on the side - a Tumblr (update: the Tumblr is no longer in use by GDS) where we, the product team …
One of the tools we’ve created on GOV.UK is the Trade Tariff tool. It contains up-to-date and historical information on the duty you have to pay when importing and exporting goods outside the UK and the EU. The tool lets …
...were asked how many government websites they visited for news. Just under half (49%) said they visited between 1 - 5 sites, 35% said they only ever visited one, while...
...This won’t happen straightaway. There is lots of hard work, investment and development needed to make these savings a reality. But digital can make a real difference quickly. The report...
While you tuck into your toffee apple and enjoy the fireworks this evening, make sure you save a few oohs and aahs for us. In ten days’ time, on November 15, the first two government departments will move their corporate …
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