It’s great to see the new whitehouse.gov web site embracing web standards. This is a trend I noticed with Obama. He hires the best people for the job and makes no exceptions when it comes to web design. His campaign web site was made with web standards, whereas the other top candidates sites looked pretty clunky behind the scenes. Web leadership starts at the top, and well, you can’t get much higher than the POTUS.
The new whitehouse.gov web site is validate xhtml. It takes advantage of jQuery for some smooth user-interface effects. It even has Atom 1.o feeds. I haven’t had a chance to look it over completely, but at first glance I am very impressed. Very nicely done, Mr. President.
