November 7, 2007
D.C. Revamps Web site
Thanks to Mike DeBonis over at City Desk, today we find that the District's official website has been revamped. The site -- dc.gov -- is now less cluttered, and as DeBonis notes, no longer boasts the smiling mug of the mayor in the upper left-hand corner.
Unfortunately, the same online care has not extended to all branches of local government -- the official website for the D.C. Council still looks like something that was put together for a high school student council.
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It's like Fenty does everything in the city when you cycle through the photos, he is in every one. He cleans the streets, hangs out with NYC Mayor, and soon there will be a photo of him in a Nationals uniform reading books to kids. Vast improvement over the last site though.
oh my god that dc council website is hilariously awful. That's like from the start of the internets.
It's pretty to look at, but it's a shame to me (as a web developer) that they revamped the site and are STILL using a table-based layout. I kind of wonder what a 508-compliance test would come up with.
@Sean Jean: Did you notice the copyright date on that one? It's been ten years; it's time for a redesign.
@justjack75 - I'm guessing it'd come up with a huge bucket of FAIL. Good style, poor execution -- nothing a few hours worth of solid rewriting from an accessibility-minded designer couldn't have fixed, though.
"[T]he official website for the D.C. Council still looks like something that was put together for a high school student council."
That right there is just plain insulting to high school student councils.
Also, I kinda liked seeing Fenty's big bald head on the main page. It gave the whole thing a personal touch.
I did see that Fredo. I was on AOL back in those days scheming for photos of Pam Anderson. Might be time for a change.
Big improvement in the search function: at least you can find it now.