United States Senate Has New Website

November 19, 2002 9:48 AM

The United States Senate's Website has been redesigned. Checking on today's Senate activities, I was pleasantly surprised to find the redesign. Poking around it is very easy to use, in comparison to other Government websites.
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood (14 comments total)

Org Chart Fu. This is cool. I really like the site-wide, contextual righthand column of related links of interest. Very nicely handled. Much better job than I did grammatically in this comment.
posted by putzface_dickman at 9:55 AM on November 19, 2002

Ah, sweet CSS.

It'd be nice if whoever did this could hook up the Census Bureau's home page.

Now if only they'd ditch the tables and hook both sites up properly for accessibility.

S. at L.: How often did you visit the old site?
posted by allaboutgeorge at 9:55 AM on November 19, 2002

Bah -- it's just a pretty face. Thomas.loc.gov is where the action really is!

Man, what I wouldn't give to have the chance to put together a little CSS package for Thomas....
posted by oissubke at 9:58 AM on November 19, 2002

allaboutgeorge: About once a month, really depends on what I was up to...
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 10:00 AM on November 19, 2002

funny! The link to lobbying disclosure in the senate is a 404 :)
posted by tboz at 10:01 AM on November 19, 2002

The blue page, the sidebar... It looks suspiciously like this site
Except, there's no MetaSenate grey-screen section
posted by matteo at 10:02 AM on November 19, 2002

Except, there's no MetaSenate grey-screen section

If they did, it would make our MeTa look like a genuine Kum-by-yah campfire girls love fest. How entertaining. They could probably raise some good fundage by charging to view something like that.
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:06 AM on November 19, 2002

They really need to enforce standards for all parts of the site, though. Some of the committee's sites make my eyes bleed...
posted by Steve_at_Linnwood at 10:09 AM on November 19, 2002

There oughta be a law against unenforced standards. And they're just the folks to pass it! (Especially if there's bleeding eyes involved.)
posted by allaboutgeorge at 10:11 AM on November 19, 2002

posted by the fire you left me at 10:20 AM on November 19, 2002

I don't get it, fire. Care to explain?
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:02 AM on November 19, 2002

fire is referring an infamous plagiarism/theft/nastiness episode in Metafilter history.
posted by MrMoonPie at 11:20 AM on November 19, 2002

As a DC resident, I wish they had a link to or information on our shadow Senator (Of course what I really wish is that we had real representation.)
posted by SealWyf at 12:00 PM on November 19, 2002

I think this change is appropriate. The new seal looks like stained glass. Sounds about right for this Congress.
posted by terrapin at 12:44 PM on November 19, 2002