Comments on: Homeland Security's new web site sucks

By: Homeland Security introduces RSS feeds - Homeland Stupidity

Homeland Security introduces RSS feeds - Homeland Stupidity — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:13:07 +0000

[...] A month ago I leveled a scathing critique of the Department of Homeland Security’s new Web site, citing among other things the lack of redirected URLs resulting in 404 errors and the lack of RSS feeds. DHS almost immediately reacted to the former and put up redirects for the most frequently used areas of the site. And at some point they also very quietly rolled out some RSS feeds. [...]

By: New immigration Web site sucks - Homeland Stupidity

New immigration Web site sucks - Homeland Stupidity — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:17:37 +0000

[...] The site, which took over a year for Merlin International to build for the agency, looks similar to the newly redesigned Department of Homeland Security Web site, which the department rolled out two weeks ago, and which also sucks, but for somewhat different reasons. [...]

By: Alistair

Alistair — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:22:46 +0000

I think you’re being a little critical of a government site. As a general rule of thumb, it takes an eternity to get the wheels moving on something like a web site redevelopment in a government agency.

The fact that they’ve gone from the typical circa 1990′s style crud into an xhtml/css based design in itself is an achievement for them.

I think you should give them a bit more of a chance, you might find this is the first phase of of many, the next being more features like you suggested?

Al.

By: Homeland Security Watch » DHS.gov, redesigned

Homeland Security Watch » DHS.gov, redesigned — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:07:42 +0000

[...] Michael Hampton weighs in with a similar (and more technically detailed) complaint. Permalink | E-Mail This Post| [...]

By: Mr Go

Mr Go — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:46:43 +0000

Hey, I don’t think it isn’t that bad,
however, I have seen div overlays on myspace that look better than dat.

Hah, wonder if it would it be wise to link to: http://www.dhs.gov/threat_level/current_new.gif
instead of the homelandstupidity.us threat level indicator.

By: Doctor Barnett

Doctor Barnett — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:34:25 +0000

They probably have switched to a content management system that dumps out thousands of server-side includes, seeing as they couldn’t write Java without throwing null pointer exceptions into the Internet. Kind of sad, but not a bad move for a site with zero interactivity.

By: Threat level forever Elevated? DHS web site changes - Homeland Stupidity

Threat level forever Elevated? DHS web site changes - Homeland Stupidity — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:00:30 +0000

[...] Update Oct. 19, 2006: The incompetent boobs at Homeland Security redesigned their Web site and moved everything around, and the advisory images are no longer available. Thanks a lot, you idiots. Comments RSS – Trackback URI [...]