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US develops shared, centrally-managed WP platform for government 21 Jun 2013 | 02:22 pm
Can't help but mention the sites.usa.gov project being run by the US General Services Administration, offering 'a shared service to help agencies focus on creating great content rather than on buildin...
My work here is done… isn’t it? 17 Jun 2013 | 10:09 pm
I've been building websites for 18 years. Roughly half of that as a full-time civil servant; and a good chunk of the rest as a government specialist. I was Whitehall's full-time web worker; and for th...
Facetious: CFTP’s Advanced Search plugin for WordPress 8 Feb 2013 | 06:59 pm
We're proud to announce that Facetious, a plugin we've been working on for quite some time, has now been released in the official WordPress repository. And we'd like to thank the UK taxpayer for his/h...
Puffbox, the Wales Office and the FOI request 17 Jan 2013 | 06:46 pm
Someone, somewhere is apparently interested in Puffbox's relationship with the Wales Office. Interested enough to dig beyond the lengthy blog posts I've written here on the subject. Interested enough ...
Failing to warm to the Kindle Fire 4 Dec 2012 | 04:06 am
There can be few more blatant symbols of internet-powered globalisation than the appearance of 'Black Friday' sales in the UK. Personally, I've never let concerns about cultural sustainability stop me...
Shifting sites: a new home for the Wales Office web presence 7 Nov 2012 | 04:38 am
Regular readers will know the pivotal role played by the Wales Office in recent gov-web history. In 2007, they took the then-radical step of moving their corporate web presence into an open-source web...
‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ 16 Oct 2012 | 03:35 pm
If you have any interest in the Directgov->GovUK transition, you are hereby ordered to make a cuppa and read this by veteran (sorry!) e-government blogger Alan Mather for a bit of historical perspecti...
GDS climbdown on ‘F#@! IE6′ stance 11 Oct 2012 | 04:51 pm
In a post on the (then) Alphagov blog in April last year about design principles: Given it has 3.5% UK market share and Microsoft are trying to persuade everyone to shift off it, we assumed IE6 is dea...
Dept of Health’s eulogy for WordPress 11 Oct 2012 | 03:27 pm
I feel somewhat obliged to highlight the latest blog post by Stephen Hale, head of digital at the Dept of Health. As regular readers will know, Stephen switched the department's web publishing strateg...
On logging in via Facebook 4 Oct 2012 | 02:04 pm
Reported by the Telegraph today: Those applying via computer or mobile phone for services ranging from tax credits, fishing licences and passports will be asked to choose from a list of familiar log-i...
