## A Web Site over Time

The White House website over time (www.whitehouse.gov).

1996

- Search
- News, Informational

1997

- Page background image
- "Virtual" Library
- You can...
- Image icons as links

1997
1998

- Animated GIF flag waving:
- Good Morning / Good Evening
- Header image larger and is a photo
- Image icons for different areas

1998
1999

- Two columns
- Descriptioins with categories
- Promotion of items to home page under "What's New" and "Site News"

1999
2001

- Major redesign
- Horizontal site navigation
- Footer navigation
- Left-side policies, news
- Main content is news stores
- Photos

2001
2002

- Information density increase
- Additional left-side categories
- Visual news items

2002
2007

- Removal of fancy script font in images
- Simplified imagery in header
- left-side items built out and more spaced

2007
2009

- New administration
- Header
- Visual top stories (rotating 4)
- Mega footer

2009
2011

- Increased density
- Presence of social media links - Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr, iTunes, MySpace, LinkedIn

2011
2015 - Early

- Top stories now primary and secondary; no longer rotating
- Increased number of images displayed
- Social media are now icons only and includes Instagram, GooglePlus; others have gone
- Footer links are now blue

2015 - Early
2015 - Late

- Decreased density (?)
- Featured stories are primary, secondary, tertiary. Every item has an image

2015 - Late
2018 - January

- New administration
- Mega footer goes away
- Header menu popout/dropdown (pancake icon)
- Visible header categories issue-oriented
- Twitter Tweets are now content

2018 - January
2021 - January

- New administration
- No top menu items are visible; only pancake menu
- Big first image not associated with a story
- Contrast / Text Size controls

2021 - January

- New administration
- No top menu items are visible; only pancake menu
- Big first image not associated with a story
- Contrast / Text Size controls

2022 - January

Screenshots from my collection and from Internet Archive Wayback Machine