September 18, 2008
D.C. Council's Retro Web Site to Finally Be Redesigned
We wouldn't have believed it had the City Paper's Mike DeBonis not posted photographic evidence. The D.C. Council has apparently finally redesigned its hopelessly out of date, circa 1997 web site, complete with screaming hot blue and pink color scheme and blinking text headlines (pictured right). What has long been the laughing stock of the local government web world should soon actually look pretty good.
No word yet on an official launch date, but we expect to see the new site up and running sometime in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, click through to the current, sad sack site while you still can. It's just like traveling through a time machine!
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Haha, blinking text! Awesome.
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Wow - I hope that's archived in some sort of Hall of Shame. The site as well as the Council (baddum pissh)
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i tried punching that URL in, and i got nothing...
oh well, it'll be nice to see if a new site actually has functionality too.
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And no links to the Councilmembers individual myspace pages? Where will I send naked pictures of myself? I'm totally deleting these guys from Friendster.
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I'm glad someone has the balls to tell Web 2.0 to go f**k itself.
Now, they just need something a little Flash-ier with a bumpin soundtrack and they'd be "good to go."
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How much do you want to bet that they paid like $25 million for that redesign, and the firm who did the work is run by a close personal friend of Marion "ScrewCookEat" Barry.
Just kidding. Maybe!
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OMG! I can't fucking wait to browse the new Council Website! It's going to be so cool.
*roll eyes*
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When will the council get on Twitter? I'm dying to know which clubs Graham is going to shut down next and what kind of babies Barry is eating.