I'm really impressed with the gov.uk project and have been following it for quite a while now.
We've been taking their lessons and applying them to a small municipal site we're building -- topic pages like their VAT example, flat document structure, really robust search. At first we were unsure how many lessons from a national government would apply to a village of a few thousand but it's turning out really well so far. It's a liberating data model in that we spend less time worrying about hierarchies ("is this for businesses or residents?") and more time curating content based on what users will need (e.g. what pages should be drawn into the residents' topic page in the springtime before an election).
We've been taking their lessons and applying them to a small municipal site we're building -- topic pages like their VAT example, flat document structure, really robust search. At first we were unsure how many lessons from a national government would apply to a village of a few thousand but it's turning out really well so far. It's a liberating data model in that we spend less time worrying about hierarchies ("is this for businesses or residents?") and more time curating content based on what users will need (e.g. what pages should be drawn into the residents' topic page in the springtime before an election).
They've also got a bunch of their code on GitHub: https://github.com/alphagov