Updated 10/17/13: After 16 days, the Congress has stopped the shutdown before the country goes into default on the 17th day. Shutdown: October 1 – 16, 2013.
The Congress of the United States shut down the government on October 1, 2013 over the new Health Care law. On that day , I took a picture of the sign in front of the Smithsonian’s Native American Museum at Bowling Green.
I decided to take a look at the website representations of the shutdown. How are they using language to describe the shutdown? What are the variations in the terminology? What were the design choices? What were the functionality choices? Did they close the website completely (no content but the shutdown information) or did they simply provided an announcement? These questions and more lead me to take screenshots of how governmental organizations are communicating the shutdown on their websites.
Below is an active list of screenshots in no particular order.
White House (http://www.whitehouse.gov/)
US House of Representatives (http://www.house.gov/)
United States Senate (http://www.senate.gov/)
US Department of State (http://www.state.gov/)
Department of Health & Human Services (http://www.hhs.gov/)
Smithsonian (http://www.si.edu/)
US Botanic Garden (http://www.usbg.gov/)
Department of Education (http://www.ed.gov/)
Institute of Education Sciences (http://ies.ed.gov/)
Department of Labor (http://www.dol.gov/)
Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/)
Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/index.html)
National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov/)
National Endowment for the Arts (http://arts.gov/)
National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov/)
National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov/outage.html)
Department of Interior (http://www.doi.gov/index.cfm)
National Park Service (http://www.nps.gov/shutdown/index.html)
Department of Transportation (http://www.dot.gov/)
Architect of the Capitol (http://www.aoc.gov/)
Department of Commerce (http://www.commerce.gov/)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (http://www.nasa.gov)
USA (http://www.usa.gov/)
US Government Accountability Office (http://www.gao.gov/)
US Copyright Office (http://www.copyright.gov/)
US Supreme Court (http://www.supremecourt.gov)
National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/)
US Department of Energy (http://energy.gov/)
US Department of Agriculture (http://www.usda.gov/fundinglapse.htm)
US Department of Defense (http://www.defense.gov)
US Department of Homeland Security (http://www.dhs.gov/)
US Department of Housing and Urban Development (http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD)
US Department of Justice (http://www.justice.gov/)
US Department of the Treasury (http://www.treasury.gov)
Department of Veterans Affairs (http://www.va.gov/)
US General Service Administration (http://www.gsa.gov/)
US Institute of Peace (http://www.usip.org/)