With the US presidential term officially flipping over at noon, it’s not terribly surprising that whitehouse.gov has already been redecorated. It’s the same high quality we’ve seen from the Obama team throughout the campaign and a large step up, in my humble opinion, from the already impressive change.gov.
The site is built very well under the hood as well, it’s all 508 compliant as required by law and they took the route of polished markup to get there. jQuery 1.2.6 was used for all the wiring, and they offer numerous RSS feeds (I’m still not over the novelty of governmental RSS but here we are).
Phil Dokas
P.S. Developer extra credit: it even *validates*