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Who does digital?

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 7 February 2012 - Categories: Jobs, Services and products, Strategy

Before I joined the Department of Health I sat down with Tim in the Skipton House canteen and he talked me through the DH digital organogram. He explained that there were at least two teams responsible for corporate digital communication in the department …

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PHP, cheese reviews, and getting your hands dirty

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 8 July 2011 - Categories: Capability

A long time ago I hand-coded a content management system from scratch using PHP and MySQL for a cheese reviews website. It wasn't a very good CMS, and it was a rubbish website. But I did it - it was …

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The zero cost CMS

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 6 March 2011 - Categories: Content

I've always been a bit intolerant of content management systems. It's a problem, and I'm trying to address it. Photo credit: mindweb from morguefile.com The source of my problem is a feeling I have that content management systems are often …

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WordPress - DH dips a toe in

Posted by: Stephen Hale, Posted on: 1 February 2011 - Categories: Content

The keenest dh.gov.uk watchers amongst you might have noticed that we've started to publish a few bits of official DH content that sit slightly apart from our main corporate website. We started with a sub-site for the Dilnot Commission - a …

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