(cross posted from DailyKos)
In my series on congressional races, I hit a lot of candidate websites. Some are fantastic, some are so-so, some look like they were done by a person who read “Web sites for dummies” but didn’t understand it. And some candidates have no website at all.
I know nothing about web site construction. But I bet some of you do. Maybe we can do something?
Also, I am not trying to insOK, I’ve not looked at every website, but I’ve looked at a lot.
One of the best I’ve seen is from the 2006 campaign in GA-06: Steve Sinton . This looks like one produced by a big corporation. Clean, flashy, good buttons, voice over….
Or look at this one for Bobby Saxon in GA-10. There are lots of good ones.
I don’t think they all need to be that good, and they certainly shouldn’t all be the same. But they should all be written in grammatical English, shouldn’t they?
Look at this one . There’s a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence, not after every comma.
In VA-02, Glenn Nye has announced, and filed with the FEC, but has no website.
In NJ-04 Amy Vazquez has a website, but it’s old (it has a fundraising goal whose deadline has passed) and Josh Zeitz has no site at all.
In MO-02 George Weber is running again – his website doesn’t really inspire confidence
In FL-05, Dave Werder has no web site at all.
In FL-18, 21, and 25, there are three new challengers who have good shots.
ult anyone’s campaign. I’m just trying to help.
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either, but I do think it’s worthwhile to let the campaign know about typos, formatting issues, etc. A professional website is very appealing, whereas a typo-laden site detracts from the message.
Just wanna say thanks for all yer work on this. A HUGELY good thing you are doing.
but I agree that a lot of them need help. Last election I worked on a House chart. The Dem., and Rep. candidates and their web sites were listed. By the time of the election there were only a few that didn’t have sites, but some of them totally sucked.