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About the guidance

Find out about the purpose of this guidance and how you can contribute to it.

• What's new

Accounts and support

Find out how to manage accounts and training, and how to get support from GDS.

• Get content advice
  • Get a content service review
  • Get help and advice
• Make content requests
  • Ask for changes to topics
  • Ask for downtime messages
  • Ask for an exemption from GOV.UK
  • Ask for a featured slot on the homepage
  • Ask for a feedback page
  • Ask for history mode to be removed
  • Ask for a new organisation page
  • Ask for a short URL
  • Ask for related links to be updated or removed
  • Ask for updates to GOV.UK content
• Make product feature requests
• Manage accounts and training
  • Manage accounts for your organisation
  • Manage your own account
  • Production and Integration
  • Publishing accounts and permissions
  • Request training and accounts for your organisation
• How to raise requests with GDS
• Report technical faults

Formatting content

Learn how to format text using markdown, and how to format images, videos and attachments.

• Attachments
  • Choose an attachment file type and file name
  • Prepare attachments
  • Prepare form attachments
  • Prepare official documents
• Content blocks
• Images
• Text formatting
  • Acronyms
  • Addresses
  • Blockquotes
  • Bullet points
  • Calls to action
  • Charts
  • Footnotes
  • Headings
  • Legislative list
  • Links
  • Numbered lists
  • Subscript and superscript
  • Tables
• Videos

Publish, update or retire content

Learn how to publish content to GOV.UK, change published content or withdraw or unpublish it.

• Choose a content type
• Corporate information pages
  • About our services
  • Accessible documents policy
  • Complaints procedure
  • Equality and diversity
  • Media enquiries
  • Our energy use
  • Our governance and memberships
  • Personal information charter
  • Procurement at [organisation name]
  • Publication scheme
  • Research at [organisation name]
  • Statistics at [organisation name]
  • Terms of reference
  • Welsh language scheme
  • Working for [organisation name]
• Organisations and people
  • Group pages
  • Organisation pages
  • People and role pages
  • Worldwide pages
• Other guidance content types
  • Find my nearest pages
  • Licence pages
  • Local transaction pages
  • Manuals
  • Specialist finders
• Promotional or social content types
  • Blogs
  • Campaigns
  • Topical event pages published before 24 April 2026
  • Topical event pages
• Standard content types
  • Calls for evidence
  • Case studies
  • Consultations
  • Detailed guides
  • Document collections
  • Fatality notices
  • News articles
  • Publications
  • Publish standard content types
  • Review standard content types
  • Send standard content types for review
  • Speeches
  • Statistical data sets
  • Statistics
  • Withdraw or unpublish standard content types

Publishing during national events

Learn the processes for publishing on GOV.UK during general elections, Bridge events or national emergencies.

• General elections
• National emergencies
• Royal deaths ('bridges')

Writing to GOV.UK standards

Learn how to design content for GOV.UK.

• Find tools and resources for analysing content
  • Find out what terms users are searching for
  • Find out how users find your content
  • Find out how users interact with your content
  • Get help with content design
• Help users prepare for change
  • If it's a change to an existing policy or scheme
  • If it's a new policy or scheme
  • If a new set of users must do an existing thing for the first time
  • If a policy or scheme is being removed or phased out
• Plan and manage content
  • Consider translations
  • Follow URL standards
  • Identify user needs
  • Manage existing GOV.UK content
  • Organise and group GOV.UK content
  • Plan new GOV.UK content
  • Retire outdated content
  • Understand accessibility
  • Understand content design
• Style guides
  • A to Z style guide
  • How to use the style guide
  • Technical A to Z style guide
• Writing guidelines
  • Write effective links
  • Write change notes
  • Use clear language
  • Create a clear structure for your content
  • Write clear titles
  • Write content to meet user needs
  • Use the right tone
  • Write clear summaries