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Improving forms with new radios and checkboxes

Posted by: Robin Whittleton, Posted on: 13 December 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK

Over the last year on GOV.UK, we’ve been looking for ways to make our forms easier to use by improving the checkboxes and radio buttons that people need to click on.

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Gaining understanding of the browsers people use

Posted by: Robin Whittleton, Posted on: 21 October 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK
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GOV.UK gets a lot of visits from people in the UK and further afield. We keep a record of all visits and use this data to support as many users as possible. Deciding which browsers to test We’ll try to …

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Why we use progressive enhancement to build GOV.UK

Posted by: Robin Whittleton, Posted on: 19 September 2016 - Categories: Chat, GOV.UK
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There seems to be a common belief among front-end developers that progressive enhancement is either old fashioned or has simply been replaced by single page applications. This is a problem of perception. We’d like to explain why we use progressive …

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Our approach to frontend and backend development

Posted by: Richard Boulton and Robin Whittleton, Posted on: 12 May 2016 - Categories: Chat, Jobs, Tools

We thought we’d try and explain the approach we’ve adopted to hiring and nurturing the right development skills. We realise it may not be clear to those not part of GDS why we solely advertise for full stack developers but …

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A living style guide for GOV.UK

Posted by: Edd Sowden, Posted on: 11 December 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Tools

When trying to develop a site with a consistent look and feel it’s common to develop a style guide with patterns which can be reused across the site. This lets designers easily reuse standard patterns and lets developers know how …

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Responsive grid system which works in IE6

Posted by: Edd Sowden, Posted on: 16 October 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK, Tools

We have a grid we use on GOV.UK which is based on percentage width columns (multiples of either 25% or 33% of the container width) with a 30px gutter between the grid columns. The columns on narrower devices shrink appropriately …

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