Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face • Hacker News Board

showerst wrote: post #9

josefresco wrote: post #2

I want to know who did the new design/site work?

I don't have any idea, but Blue State Digital did his campaign site and a bunch of other dem 08 work, so perhaps it was them.

Blue State Digital built CHANGE.GOV, and this is pretty clearly a continuation, although the impression I get is that they've brought a lot of it in-house.

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

#24

Post by teej » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:53 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #18

bgutierrez wrote: post #8

Even better, it's valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehous...

//

XHTML is also pointless when it's served up at text/html

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

#25

Post by henning » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 7:57 PM UTC

mechanical_fish wrote: post #14

trickjarrett wrote: post #4

It's also built using jQuery as tweeted by jResig. I was hoping Obama would begin using twitter immediately after taking the Presidency. We'll see if the twitter account falls into the history books and is not utilized.

I think I'm prepared to forgive the President for not having the time to post on Twitter.

What? No. He has to spend 15 hours a day checking email and tweeting like Gary Vaynerchuk says! Social media!!

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

#26

Post by ALee » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 8:01 PM UTC

jrnkntl wrote: post #13

But why are they using some external commercial company for visitor analytics? (webtrendslive.com)

probably because of government contract, but also because in the DC region WebTrends is well-known as an analytics tool

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

#27

Post by wheels » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 8:05 PM UTC

henning wrote: post #25

mechanical_fish wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think I'm prepared to forgive the President for not having the time to post on Twitter.

What? No. He has to spend 15 hours a day checking email and tweeting like Gary Vaynerchuk says! Social media!!

  dm @joeyb Bleh, this Gordon guy is boring me to tears. Your turn next time. Bar ltr?

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

#28

Post by look_lookatme » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 8:26 PM UTC

blogimus wrote: post #6

Whitehouse.gov also has a new robots.txt file ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt ) If you search google for 'whitehouse' and 'robots' then you can still see the cache of the robots.txt file of the Bush Administration ( http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:tCfemw3M-aUJ:www.whiteho... )

The site has been operational for less than a day. Let's compare at the end of administration.

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

#29

Post by jonknee » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 8:36 PM UTC

keyes wrote: post #17

blogimus wrote: post #6

Whitehouse.gov also has a new robots.txt file ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt ) If you search google for 'whitehouse' and 'robots' then you can still see the cache of the robots.txt file of the Bush Administration ( http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:tCfemw3M-aUJ:www.whiteho... )

All the URLs in the former robots.txt seem to end in "/text". It's likely that they just didn't want the text versions of the articles to be indexed.

You are correct. The text versions were present for screen readers.

Re: Whitehouse.gov Has A New Face

#30

Post by callahad » Tue, Jan 20, 2009, 8:57 PM UTC

Check out http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/

"Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Whitehouse.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License."