As GOV.UK Forms moves into public beta, find out what we’ve done so far, what we’re doing next and how you can get involved and start building your own forms on the platform.
The move of web content from the Department of Health (DH) to GOV.UK has been a relatively calm experience for the DH team. It’s been extremely busy and quite intense at times but I only had one day of actual …
Applying for licences is rarely a fun activity and this applies equally to the authorities responsible for processing them. When you wanted a licence extension for your birthday party in a pub this would have traditionally involved a tedious and …
Getting a new message out This week the IT Reform team within GDS released new guidance to government departments and suppliers around the technology we use. We've done this to make sure our technology doesn't end up becoming inflexible, overdesigned, …
You might think that we’ve gone a little quiet since we published the Open Standards Principles last November, but we’ve been working hard on getting together the processes and the people to lead on some of the open standards challenges …
This morning we fully welcomed the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on to GOV.UK. There are lots of new features and services but a big focus for our team has been building the new Foreign Travel Advice pages. Foreign Travel …
Today we are very pleased to release the Worldwide section of GOV.UK, which explains the structure and activities of British government organisations in over 200 locations around the world. Worldwide (www.gov.uk/government/world) is the new home on the web for the overseas …
This week GOV.UK is up for the Designs of the Year awards at the Design Museum and the exhibition opened on Wednesday, the Department for Culture Media and Sport released a new intranet using GDS services and design rules, and …
One of the questions publishers in government departments are asking us a lot at the moment is "Can I embed [insert name of web app here] on GOV.UK?" In the spirit of "publish, don't send" this blog post sets out …
At the outset, it wasn't clear that we were making a manual. Our brief was to draw up the thing that all new services will be judged against - the Digital by Default Service Standard, as set out in the …
I've just got off the phone after talking to Andrew Simpson, the civil servant leading the redevelopment of the DCMS intranet. I've never met Andrew face to face, but I look forward to doing so, because he and his tiny …
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