Yesterday, when the stories about Claude Moore Farm, the Mt Vernon parking lot and Colonial Williamsburg being closed hit, I went looking for the backgrounds of Obama appointees working at NPS.
Without the NPS website being available, it was a little challenging to find. Right away, anyways ...
Well I figured out why they redirected the sites thanks to the poster on this thread who’s defending the administration’s decision.
The fact is that these informational type sites (not complex builds, not script intensive, no ecommerce etc. etc) don’t need much after they’re built. Though I love IT, IT is notorious for creating the vision of everything that can go wrong, and as a result, why they are indispensable. It doesn’t mean things can’t go wrong, just that the picture is often far worse than the reality.
So, if they left these low tech sites up and nothing went wrong for weeks, then what does that say about their relevance?