WhiteHouse.gov

WhiteHouse.gov

Opening page as of January 20, 2009
Type of site
 Government
Available in English, Spanish
Owner Federal government of the United States
Website whitehouse.gov
Alexa rank 3,462 (February 2015)[1]
Commercial No
Launched October 20, 1994 (1994-10-20)[2][3]
Current status Active
The website during the presidency of Bill Clinton, 1995

WhiteHouse.gov is the official website of the White House and is owned by the United States government. Launched in October 1994,[4] 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.[5]

The Presidency of Barack Obama

Content

The current administration's website is broken into the following sections:

Platform

The current website runs on the open source software named Drupal.[6]

Civic engagement

On September 1, 2011, David Plouffe 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.[7]

See also

References

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