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 The D.C. Council has apparently finally redesigned its hopelessly out of date, circa 1997 web site, complete with screaming hot blue and pink color scheme and blinking text headlines (pictured right).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!