Blogging makes it easier for government to talk about its work, share information and ideas, and connect with those with a common concern. A few months ago, we launched the new GOV.UK blogging platform - which is designed to help …
We introduced a new version of the GOV.UK homepage a few weeks ago, and since then we’ve collected lots of data about what’s working and what improvements we can make. We thought we’d share some of the headlines here. You …
In the past few weeks, a small team in the Government Digital Service has been working to make significant improvements to site search on GOV.UK. When GOV.UK came out of beta in October 2012, replacing the Directgov and Business Link …
Earlier this week the the final ministerial department joined GOV.UK. This isn't the end of the GOV.UK story; in fact it's barely the end of the beginning. But today is still a big moment, the result of commitment and collaboration …
University of Salford student Andrew Langhorn recently got in touch with us to chat about his dissertation on the UK government's approach to digital. We asked him to write a few words about what it's like to study a live …
A few relatively quiet weeks have been building up to a busy five days at GDS. More releases, an office reshuffle and some special guests all combined to make sure we don’t go quiet in the run-up to Christmas.
Earlier this year James Weiner and Ben Welby wrote about the browsers and devices that we are supporting on GOV.UK. We made these decisions using browser/device data from various sources including Directgov, BusinessLink, central government departments and several other big sites. …
The aim of GOV.UK is to bring all government information and services into one place - that is why we are looking to transition over all our websites onto GOV.UK by April 2014. However, there were always going to be …
The department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has been working with GDS since before GDS existed to help get department websites ready for the move to GOV.UK. John Turnbull from BIS explains what it’s been like to see the …
Following a busy few weeks here at GDS, some staff holidays and a few winter colds have left the office feeling a little bit quieter than usual.
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