Sort of related, have you seen the UK government's attempt at making a usable government website?

http://www.gov.uk/ will eventually replace all the UK government websites. (Thank God...)

EDIT: Yes, it's nice.

Also, the design principles are pretty good.

(https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples)

(EDIT was this before, <strike> What's wrong with it? It's a lot better than the fucking god-awful mess that is DirectGov.</strike>)

There's nothing wrong with it, sorry if the way I phrased that suggested as much.

I was implying it is better than the messes that are the other UK government websites.