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Re: DWP - Services and benefits online

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Post by Stubbs »

To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site.

One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards.

If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to the new gov.uk version, and I guess you'd have to work hard to find that error page if it wasn't already bookmarked.

Re: DWP - Services and benefits online

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Post by mattwritescode »

Stubbs wrote: post #3

To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…

I agree this, was an interesting thing to find.

Re: DWP - Services and benefits online

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Post by stevejalim »

Stubbs wrote: post #3

To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…

This is the DWP homepage if you come via http://gov.uk:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-w...

As a Brit, the new Gov.uk site makes me feel very proud, even though I had nothing to do with it. :o)

Re: DWP - Services and benefits online

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Post by mbesto »

stevejalim wrote: post #8
Stubbs wrote: post #3

To be fair to the DWP, this is their old site. One of the things the British Government is doing properly at the moment is their digital strategy, their new web site gov.uk has won multiple awards. If you go to the DWP's home page it does tell you it's an old site, and should probably redirect, but it's unfair to criticise something that's not the current implementation. Most of the links from that front page go to t…

This is the DWP homepage if you come via http://gov.uk : https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-w... As a Brit, the new Gov.uk site makes me feel very proud, even though I had nothing to do with it. :o)

As an American in the UK who constantly needs to find information about living here, it reduces massive amounts of frustration. Good on ya lads!
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