In one of DCist’s earliest jazz posts, we lamented that local jazz artists and venues were lagging behind other parts of the D.C. arts scene in getting information on the internet. Things have changed for the better during the past four years. In 2010, CapitalBop emerged as a welcome addition to the District’s jazz community. The site is as much a venture in advocacy and activism for this music as it is a foray into jazz journalism, making it as comprehensive an online resource as this city has ever had.
We noticed for the first time today that popular 9th Street bar and live music venue DC9 has totally redesigned its web site. The previous iteration looked a lot like the sites of sister venues Rock and Roll Hotel and The Red and the Black, but now, it’s got a cleaner, easier-to-read layout, which booking manager Steve Lambert said was meant to “focus more on the artists and events we have coming through.” The…
On the eve of last night’s Top Chef season finale, Bryan Voltaggio told DCist to look out for plans for a collaborative project with his brother Michael. Just hours before the show’s airing, which featured the brothers as two of the three finalists, Bryan told Washington Post food chatters that while no new restaurants are in the works, fans could check out a new web site, www.voltaggiobrothers.com, to see what was in the pipeline….
The D.C. Public Library launched a redesigned web site today, and it appears to a substantial upgrade from its previous version. Check it out for yourself at www.dclibrary.org. A news release accompanying the launch touts new features including separate pages for each neighborhood library; a new calendar that filters events by day, location, and type of program; an online meeting-room reservation system; the ability to request a text message to alert you when library…
In another sign of how the Washington Post is moving to merge its print and online versions, washingtonpost.com changed its logo today to the same one that sits atop the regular newspaper. The old web site logo has been scuttled in favor of reinforcing the Post brand, a decision that strikes us as both wise and long overdue. Fishbowl DC has the internal memo:This recognizes what we all have long known: washingtonpost.com is very…
As promised, WMATA launched a redesigned web site today, accessible either from MetroOpensDoors.com or www.wmata.com. It’s certainly a step in the right direction as far as giving Metro the appearance of being a part of the 21st century goes, though for longtime Wmata.com users, it’ll take some getting used to. While most of the changes are cosmetic, such as presenting Service Alerts in an easier to read, color-coded grid in the lower left corner,…
Last month we got excited that the D.C. Council’s famously 1997-era web site was finally being redesigned, and today we noticed that the new site is now live. Compare what it looks like now to what it looked like before. Much better, right? As far as functionality goes, we’re still digging through it, but the calendar feature will surely come in handy, and the ability to see a list of upcoming hearings by committee…
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…
Ever been frustrated trying to locate the local news stories on the Examiner web site? OK, maybe that’s just us, since it’s our job to read them. But if you had ever tried it, you would have discovered that you have to first go to the “News” section, and then make sure to select “Local News” in the drop down menu, as opposed to the tauntingly named “District of Columbia” section, which contained national politics…
