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Friday, 2nd April 2010

New This Morning: The White House Launches Mobile Web Site

Now you can stay up-to-the-minute with happenings at The White House wherever you are.

This morning, President Obama and his team at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW debuted a mobile version of The White House web site.

To access the site, simply head to www.whitehouse.gov and your mobile web browser should redirect to m.whitehouse.gov. to the mobile site.

Of course, you can enter m.whitehouse.gov. directly into your mobile browser and gain access to the mobile site.

White House Mobile Begins With Links to Four "Feature Stories": The stories listed today are:

1. On the Road to Recovery
2. Tax Savings Tool
3. Health Reform Begins
4. Students Before Banks

Top-level categories offer news and info, multimedia, policy positions, etc. Seven in all. There are often more links below these pages.

1. The White House Blog
2. Photos
3. Videos
4. Briefing Room
5. Issues
6. The Administration
7. About the White House
8. Our Government (Basics of Federal, State, and Local Governments in the U.S.)

Whitehouse.gov is also searchable via a search box at the bottom of most pages.

A large number of result sorts are available, especially for a mobile site.

Search results can be sorted by:

+ Relevancy
+ Title
+ Type
+ Author
+ Date

Don't forget that The White House offers an iPhone/iTouch app that was released in January. It's still available here for free.

Two issues after just a few minutes of using the mobile site with an (iPhone 3G) are:

1) We were unable to expand the size of the text like you're able to do on most other sites (our issue?). Viewing the page in landscape mode helps.

2) it would be helpful if the search box was a bit larger.

What would a post be these days without an iPad mention? (-: So, Dave Cole on The White House Blog reports:

WhiteHouse.gov [the primary web site] is being featured by Apple as "iPad ready" thanks to our use of the latest web standards, such as HTML5 video support. This includes the ability to watch our live and on-demand video.

Source: The White House Blog


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