Another in the long list of sites to redesign this year is Number10, the website of the prime minister's office has taken on the whole web 2.0 look.

It's got Flickr, YouTube and Twitter all in the sidebar, plus links to submit stories to Facebook, Digg, etc and of course, RSS feeds.. just in case you want to keep up to date on everything Downing Street it twittering.

Seems like it's built on top of WordPress (based on the code), despite the fact there's no mention of it anywhere. They've already got some rather interesting code cock-ups. Nested anonymous <div>'s for absolutely no reason, links pointing to local IP addresses (e.g. the "Home" link, which points to http://10.10.0.215/), not to mention the fact they're not clearing floats on the "Communicate" page, so the images are pushed off to the left.

There's a grand total of 72 errors if you try and validate the XHTML. Although to be fair, most of those are because of using & instead of &amp;. At least the CSS is valid, although they didn't write it, it's a pre-made WordPress theme called NetWorker.

Also, no print stylesheet. C'mon people!!! All websites should have a print stylesheet. Trying to print their website is painful, and is going to waste a hell of a lot of paper, along with lots of ink. Is that really the environmental message they want to give out?

It's even in "Beta", a true web 2.0 site! Which would explain the above issues, can't expect everything to be perfect first time. It does look very good though, and is definitely an improvement on the old site. Nice to see they're actually making an effort!