At noon today, even before he was officially sworn in, Barack Obama officially became the 44th President of the United States of America, and as quickly as he said his oaths, the www.whitehouse.gov website was re-launched. The new design reflects the aesthetics of the Obama campaign, and is clean and accessible to a very broad audience. Sections are large and obvious, and it seems to be easy enough to navigate.
My one complaint would be their typographical choices for the blog section, although most of the content on the site is well-formatted. On the front page, the list of articles could use a bit more spacing to read easier, and is inconsistent with the list on the actual blog page. It does however feature an RSS feed (which, along with the weekly radio address, I will be subscribing to!) There’s also a weekly video address which will probably show up on Youtube and other sites as well, so the new administration is definitely a few steps closer to “web 2.0″ than the previous folks!
Stop by and check it out, and bookmark it, because I have a feeling that the new people in charge will be using it a lot more than the old.
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