The new FCC.gov

fcc.gov

7 points·sinak··6 comments

First thing I noticed, another Gov site using Drupal (7) - currently working with a Federal Entity that uses Drupal for it's websites, funny how it seems to be used more than, say WordPress or Umbraco (Which would make more sense). On our end, it's because we are currently Army (but not much longer with the conversion to DHA) and the Army has a CON (Certification of Networthiness) which doesn't have much on it, though Drupal is on there.

The winning contractor most likely proposed drupal, by showcasing a large number of government websites they built using... drupal. It's an endless cycle of past performance coming out on top, regardless of how creative or customized another bidder might have been. Not that drupal is bad portal software, but contracting officers that don't know any better will just pick the (cheapest) company with the longest track record of success.

Warning, this loads a full whopping 3 Megabytes. Main culprit are some PNG files that should be optimised or tiled.

Yeah really. Just look at these:

91k @ 369px × 4275px https://www.fcc.gov/sites/all/themes/fcc/images/icons-2x-s4a...

461k @ 2129px × 1571px https://www.fcc.gov/sites/all/themes/fcc/images/bg-pattern-h...

493k @ 2128px × 1593px https://www.fcc.gov/sites/all/themes/fcc/images/bg-pattern-g...

585k @ 2128px × 3740px https://www.fcc.gov/sites/all/themes/fcc/images/icons-sa0dc2...

Man, the layout bails out of side-by-side columns at 1056px wide, and the on-screen-nav only makes it down to 990px.

Good use of Open Sans, though.

Looks like the filing system is unchanged from when John Oliver hugged it to death.

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