Last month we got excited that the D.C. Council's famously 1997-era web site was finally being redesigned, and today we noticed that the new site is now live. Compare what it looks like now to what it looked like before. Much better, right? As far as functionality goes, we're still digging through it, but the calendar feature will surely come in handy, and the ability to see a list of upcoming hearings by committee......

We wouldn't have believed it had the City Paper's Mike DeBonis not posted photographic evidence. The D.C. Council has apparently finally redesigned its hopelessly out of date, circa 1997 web site, complete with screaming hot blue and pink color scheme and blinking text headlines (pictured right). What has long been the laughing stock of the local government web world should soon actually look pretty good. No word yet on an official launch date, but we......