Whitehorse has a new website and it's MUCH improved.

Starting with the name itself: whitehorse.ca is far easier to remember than city.whitehorse.yk.ca.

I have spent a few frustrated afternoons (to put it mildly) trying to navigate the old site and I am very pleased with how resourceful the new site is. Some highlights include:

The Notify Me section for press releases, newsletters and more

The festival sub-site under Visitors. Design-wise, there are some awful shadows and glows here that deviate from the look of the main site, but look how exciting February in Whitehorse is!

The Canada Games Centre section is really nice too, and automatically loads today's schedule.

I find the background looks a little bit like American money, but the site was designed by an American company called Vision Internet that specializes in Government websites, so I guess it's part of the terrain.

There's a strange gradient fading the city's logo into the background which confuses me. But other than a few nit-picky things, the site is pleasing and very useful. Have a look through—you're sure to find something you'll want to come back to!