The new White House website

[Snookerman]

The White House has a fresh website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ (http://www.whitehouse.gov/)

What do you think about it?

[Twey]

It's pseudo–XHTML Trans. 'nuff said.

[Snookerman]

:D That's the first thing I noticed too but I was referring to the design, the content, etc. I wouldn't hold my breath until my government's website used jQuery for example.

[Medyman]

The White House has a fresh website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/ (http://www.whitehouse.gov/)

What do you think about it?

Lovin' it.

[molendijk]

I like it for its smooth design (nice neutral colors) and for the very stable top menu. What is less successful is the top-menu's 'repetition' at the bottom of each page. That makes the pages a bit too 'busy'.

Arie.

[Snookerman]

I like the colours too and I think it's quite common to repeat the navigation in the footer, it comes in handy for longer pages (http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/economy/) so the user doesn't have to scroll back up. What I think is odd and confusing is the American flag that works as the "home" button.

[molendijk]

I think it's quite common to repeat the navigation in the footer, it comes in handy for longer pages so the user doesn't have to scroll back up.
I'd prefer a fixed navigation menu, then.
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Arie.

[jscheuer1]

Change has come to America.

[molendijk]

Change has come to America.
We'll scroll our way through each and every problem.
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Arie.

[Medyman]

We'll scroll our way through each and every problem.

Oh, come on Arie. Where's your optimism? lol

[jscheuer1]

I think it's interesting that obviously there's this team of coders and a project leader who had this new site just about, if not completely finished, just waiting for the opportunity to roll it out.

But even more so that we all just assume this, when it wasn't all that long ago that government had little or no presence online, at least not of this nature, and not too long before that, no real internet to speak of.

It's kind of the fish in water sort of thing. Does he really even know its there?

[molendijk]

Oh, come on Arie. Where's your optimism? lol
Medyman, that was not supposed to sound pessimistic. You're right, let's hope for the best.
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Arie.