The District Department of Transportation on Thursday unveiled two different web sites designed to help them communicate better with the public. The first is a redesign of DDOT’s home page, which in addition to making the site more attractive and easier to navigate, also represents a glimpse into the future for the rest of the D.C. government: other redesigned departmental sites using this basic template are expected later this year. “We thought our [old]…

Click on over to www.washingtonpost.com/local to take a look at the new Washingtonpost.com ‘Local’ homepage, which launched in Beta at 4 p.m. this afternoon. Surprisingly enough, the design actually does look significantly different from the regular home page, a far cry from previous WaPo attempts to differentiate between the local and national editions of the paper by offering minor, barely noticeable differences for online readers with local IP addresses. Among the new features are…