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    <h1>Government Digital Service <strong>Content principles</strong></h1>
    <p>This style guide is part of the <a href="/design-principles">Design Principles</a> document.</p>
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        <h1>What's new?</h1>
        <p>You'll find information about style updates on this page.</p>
        
        <h2>Changes for 18 July, 2013</h2>
        <h3>GOV.UK style changes/improvements</h3>
        <p>Only one change today: we've removed the need to put <a href="/design-principles/insidegovernment#titles-5">FOI references in the titles of publications</a>. </p>

        <h2>Changes for 14 June, 2013</h2>
        <h3>GOV.UK style changes/improvements</h3>
        <p>Only one change today: we've added <a href="/design-principles/style-guide#capitalisation">Rt Hon</a> to the capitalisation section. Please note lack of full stops.</p>
        
        <h2>Changes for 21 May, 2013</h2>
        <h3>GOV.UK style changes/improvements</h3>
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        	<li> new <a href="/design-principles/seo">search engine optimisation (SEO) information</a></li>
        	<li> more <a href="/design-principles/style-guide#faqs"> guidance on frequently asked questions (FAQs)</a></li>
        	<li> clearer guidance on <a href="/design-principles/style-guide#steps">steps</a></li>
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        <h2>Changes for 8 March, 2013</h2>
        <h3>GOV.UK style changes/improvements</h3>
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          <li>use midday, not 12 noon, noon or 12pm</li>
          <li>caps on <a href="/design-principles/style-guide#capitalisation">acts and bills</a></li>
          <li><a href="/design-principles/style-guide#dates-and-times">truncated months</a> are allowed if you are pressed for space, for example in tables, publication titles etc</li>
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        <h3>Inside Government</h3>
        <p>More advice on <a href="/design-principles/insidegovernment#attribution">attribution for photos</a></p>
        <h2>Changes from 18 February, 2013</h2>
        <h3>GOV.UK overall style changes/improvements</h3>
        <p>Markdown on links: when adding meaningful markdown, eg: &rdquo;Apply for a show licence on the footwear website&rdquo;, first word should be capped. We do need to tell people they are going to a different website. </p>
        <p>Helplines in text: will be lower case. For example: &lsquo;For all enquiries on how to use colons, call the GDS helpline on 020 7654 321&rsquo; (that&rsquo;s not a real number, by the way.)</p>
        <p>We can use &lsquo;if&rsquo; in titles, if appropriate.</p>
        <p>We&rsquo;ve added more &lsquo;words to avoid&rsquo; and moved it out of policies and into the main guide, so this list of words and phrases now affects all of GOV.UK. It&rsquo;s under the <a href="/design-principles/style-guide#words-to-avoid">1.5 words to avoid</a> section.</p>
        <p>There is also new <a href="/design-principles/insidegovernment#accessible-pdfs">guidance on accessible PDFs</a></p>
        <h3>Inside Government changes</h3>
        <p>There is a lot of updated guidance for this section. I'd suggest you read it all. The only parts that haven&rsquo;t changed are: news, speeches, policies and the style differences. So have a look at these:</p>
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          <li><a href="/design-principles/insidegovernment#case-studies">Case studies</a></li>
          <li><a href="/design-principles/insidegovernment#about-us">Corporate pages</a></li>
          <li><a href="/design-principles/detailedguides">Detailed guidance</a></li>
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