June 08, 2004
C'mon people!
C'mon... if you're going to take the time to become an election candidate for your party, for your riding, at LEAST create a decent website, or keep it updated.
Here are the 3 of the worst websites for the candidates in my riding:
Peter Goldring for Conservatives
Janina Strudwick for NDP
Edward Spronk for ... get this... the "Christian Heritage Party"... good lord
What blows my mind in the NDP case is she's in her mid 20's .... I thought that most people in that age group could create a web page, or know the importance of the internet. I'm all for the NDP, but what is she going to do for my riding if a) I haven't seen ONE party sign in my area and b) her logo is Name/Nom.
It's June 8th people... 20 days to the election
The 2 parties that have the most impressive webpages are here:
(most surprising to me is the Green Party website, go GREEN!)
Harlan Light for the Green Party
John Bethel for Liberals
Update!
Looks like Janina Strudwick's web guys finally updated her site last night, and she was voted in as a candidate May 27, so I guess I can cut her some slack.
Someone here in the office is running for the CHP and gave me his card in case I wanted to vote for him. Sadly, christian conservatives and my views don't exactly match up :)
Nice find on the websites... I'm not sure which one is worse, the one with animated gifs, marquee and frames, the one where the content (assuming there actually is content) doesn't show up in safari, or the one that looks worse than my first website circa 1993!
Posted by: Arcterex at June 8, 2004 12:14 PMNot surprising that those sites are so bad, really. Goldring's site is generated by FrontPage 5.0 (ick!), Sprink's is generated by Adobe GoLive 5 (yuck!) and Strudwick's is done by Bento Box Media. Good job, Bento! I'll run right out and use your services, next time I want a sub-par site waaaaay behind schedule...
Dave, you should know by now that just because a person can surf websites does not mean they can create them, nor that they know who to go to for the creation of the sites...
Posted by: Michael at June 8, 2004 12:16 PMYeah, I know Michael, but I like to vent anyways. It's not that I'm surprised, just ever amazed at the lameness.
The matter of Strudwick not having even 1 sign or placard up anywhere in the northeast (that I can see anyways) doesn't have anything to do with her website company. Maybe there are other reasons she's so far behind, even the liberals JUST started going nuts with posters the other day. Goldring has had his up (next door of all places) for about a week. Even Harvey Light (I think that's what his name was) has had Green Party signs up for a week.
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