Style v2 | Government Digital Service
One of the first headings in the GOV.UK editorial style guide is ‘Ever-changing style guide’. And it has just changed again. Biggest change for GOV.UK The biggest change is more guidance on writing policy pages. Neil Williams posted about having policy content on GOV.UK in February 2012. We tested the Inside Government part of GOV.UK earlier…
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