A Web Site over Time

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

1996
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  • Search
  • News, Informational
1997
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  • Page background image
  • "Virtual" Library
  • You can...
  • Image icons as links
1997
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1998
whitehouse.gov
  • Animated GIF flag waving:
    US Flag waving in breeze
  • Good Morning / Good Evening
  • Header image larger and is a photo
  • Image icons for different areas
1998
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1999
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  • Two columns
  • Descriptioins with categories
  • Promotion of items to home page under "What's New" and "Site News"
1999
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2001
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  • Major redesign
  • Horizontal site navigation
  • Footer navigation
  • Left-side policies, news
  • Main content is news stores
  • Photos
2001
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2002
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  • Information density increase
  • Additional left-side categories
  • Visual news items
2002
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2007
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  • Removal of fancy script font in images
  • Simplified imagery in header
  • left-side items built out and more spaced
2007
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2009
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  • New administration
  • Header
  • Visual top stories (rotating 4)
  • Mega footer
2009
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2011
whitehouse.gov
  • Increased density
  • Presence of social media links - Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo, Flickr, iTunes, MySpace, LinkedIn
2011
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2015 - Early
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  • 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
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2015 - Late
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  • Decreased density (?)
  • Featured stories are primary, secondary, tertiary. Every item has an image
2015 - Late
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2018 - January
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  • New administration
  • Mega footer goes away
  • Header menu popout/dropdown (pancake icon)
  • Visible header categories issue-oriented
  • Twitter Tweets are now content
2018 - January
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2021 - January
whitehouse.gov
  • 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
whitehouse.gov
  • 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
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Screenshots from my collection and from Internet Archive Wayback Machine