GOV.UK beta: the middle and the end
This is the third blog post in a 4 part series on how GOV.UK and content design happened at Government Digital Service.
This is the third blog post in a 4 part series on how GOV.UK and content design happened at Government Digital Service.
This is the second blog post in a 4 part series on how GOV.UK and content design happened at Government Digital Service.
To understand the content foundations of Government Digital service, you need to understand the environment they came from first. The story starts here. This is the first of 4 blog posts about GOV.UK beta from a content (and my) perspective.
A lot of organisations specify a word count for web pages. This is supposed to help usability — we know people generally read less online than they do on paper.
But word counts are often used as a tool to try to control bad writing, not to promote good content.
It's a great irony of what we do, that we don't always agree on what we, content people, call ourselves.