Whitehouse.gov
Encyclopedia
Whitehouse.gov is the official website
of the White House
and is owned by the United States government
. Launched in October 1994, it contains general American history information, as well as current news pertaining to the President
, press briefings, proclamations, executive orders, and any speeches the president has made on the radio
.
The website is the responsibility of the incumbent administration. As a result the site is completely redesigned for each new president, and the site's structure and URLs are often inconsistent from one administration to the next.
Content of website is in the public domain
or licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license .
's website is broken into the following sections:
. For the lay user, the White House website looks much the same as it has since inauguration day (though search should work noticeably better). But by being open source, the White House is opening itself up to all the bright ideas, powerful plug-ins, and innovative tools that the considerable community of Drupal aficionados come up with. It's a community that the White House says it is eager to tap into.
announced in an email that the White House is releasing "We the People
" to allow public petitions on whitehouse.gov. The launch of the petitioning platform was announced by Katelyn Sabochik September 22, 2011 in a White House blog post.
Website
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of the White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
and is owned by the United States government
Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...
. Launched in October 1994, it contains general American history information, as well as current news pertaining to the President
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
, press briefings, proclamations, executive orders, and any speeches the president has made on the radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
.
The website is the responsibility of the incumbent administration. As a result the site is completely redesigned for each new president, and the site's structure and URLs are often inconsistent from one administration to the next.
Content of website is in the public domain
Public domain
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or licensed under Creative Commons Attribution license .
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The current administrationPresidency of Barack Obama
The Presidency of Barack Obama began at noon EST on January 20, 2009 when he became the 44th President of the United States. Obama was a United States Senator from Illinois at the time of his victory over Arizona Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential election...
's website is broken into the following sections:
- The White House BlogBlogA blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
; - Photos & Videos;
- The Briefing Room;
- Issues;
- The Administration;
- The White House;
- Our Government;
Platform
The current website runs on the open source software named DrupalDrupal
Drupal is a free and open-source content management system and content management framework written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is used as a back-end system for at least 1.5% of all websites worldwide ranging from personal blogs to corporate, political, and...
. For the lay user, the White House website looks much the same as it has since inauguration day (though search should work noticeably better). But by being open source, the White House is opening itself up to all the bright ideas, powerful plug-ins, and innovative tools that the considerable community of Drupal aficionados come up with. It's a community that the White House says it is eager to tap into.
Civic Engagement
On September 1, 2011, David PlouffeDavid Plouffe
David Plouffe is an American political strategist best known as the chief campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in the United States...
announced in an email that the White House is releasing "We the People
We the People (petitioning system)
We the People is a section of the whitehouse.gov website, launched September 22, 2011, for petitioning the current administration's policy experts...
" to allow public petitions on whitehouse.gov. The launch of the petitioning platform was announced by Katelyn Sabochik September 22, 2011 in a White House blog post.
See also
- whitehouse.comWhitehouse.comwhitehouse.com was an adult and political entertainment website that first came online in 1997. According to a statement on the web, it was originally created by Ransom Scott as a place where uncensored discussion of government policies could occur before adult content was added to make it more...
, a former adult website - Whitehouse.orgWhitehouse.orgWhitehouse.org is a parody website that Chickenhead Productions created in 2001, though the domain was first registered in 1995. The banner at the top of the website's front page read: "THE WHITE HOUSE" "OFFICIOUS WEBSITE OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH". The website is a parody of former U.S....
, a parody website - List of websites founded before 1995
External links
- The White House
- Archived versions of the site during the Bush administration
- Archived versions of the site during the Clinton administrationPresidency of Bill ClintonThe United States Presidency of Bill Clinton, also known as the Clinton Administration, was the executive branch of the federal government of the United States from January 20, 1993 to January 20, 2001. Clinton was the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a second full term...