Republicans Vs. Democrats — Part 2

I think it might be bet­ter to set up a sep­a­rate blog for this topic.  There are so many bad polit­i­cal / politi­cian web­sites it’s almost too easy to poke fun at them.  Well, it still needs to be done.

First up, fla­grant use of bad flash leads us to the inescapable con­clu­sion that polit­i­cal can­di­dates are all about shiny things and lit­tle sub­stance.  This guy (whose name reads like Sodom with a lisp) has a site that loads with an unfor­tu­nate series of chords and a stu­pid whoosh­ing sound when you mouse over any of his top nav­i­ga­tion but­tons.  The cheesy wav­ing flag at the top doesn’t help, but the real trav­esty is the flash win­dow that con­stantly rotates the demo say­ing some­thing about your busi­ness and its ben­e­fits.  It isn’t even semi-ok flash.  Sad…

This next one is bad, I just can’t put my fin­ger on what about it is bad.  Maybe it’s the blue on blue (and not even a good blue).  Maybe it’s the fact that the type-faces don’t agree and there are about five of them.  Maybe it’s the pixel­lated fonts where the text is embed­ded in an image (did they use MS Paint?).  No, it has to be the guy’s pic­ture.  Kind of reminds me of my Trig teacher from high school.  That must be it.

I speak Viet­namese, which is why I’m so dis­ap­pointed in this next one.  Would you think, like I do, that a doc­tor could afford proper web design?  I guess Dr. Pham isn’t your nor­mal doc­tor.  The pur­ple with black over­lays is price­less, as is his offi­cial photo.  The guy’s pol­i­tics can’t be as bad as his site.  I mean, Cal­i­for­nia is a stone’s throw from col­lapse as it is.  Any­thing is bet­ter than what they have now.  I just won­der if Dr. Pham is mak­ing a state­ment with his web­site (other than, “Hi, I suck.”).

So, lets say you start a polit­i­cal party in the mid 2000’s and you don’t know what to do with the web.  That’s for­giv­able.  Now, carry that into today and it’s just sad.  If you’ve had more than a cou­ple years and your site still looks exactly the same (com­plete with under con­struc­tion ref­er­ences) maybe you shouldn’t have a party at all.  There has to be at least one party mem­ber who’d do a pro-bono to make the web­site look like some­thing other than a high-school project done by two guys striv­ing for a “C.”  I guess the Peace and Free­dom party died in 2008 because there is no 2009 ver­sion.  Maybe it’s for the best.

Then there’s Elliot Gra­ham.  Well Elliot…  Your site is, um…  white.  The text is all cen­tered, you require that the poor folks who read it scroll not only a mile and a half south, but east and west as well.  I gen­uinely hope you make an effort to fix it, because a run for any office shouldn’t start with piss­ing off your poten­tial con­stituents (are you even run­ning for some­thing?  I can’t tell).  Nobody (and I mean absolutely not one soul) enjoys left to right scrolling.  Also, your pic­ture could stand a res­o­lu­tion enhance­ment.  He asks us to read every­thing on the web­site.  I don’t have that kind of time, man…

So, in an effort to make sure all par­ties are rep­re­sented in the Cal­i­for­nia Governor’s race, the Lib­er­tar­ian can­di­date has a web­site up.  A bad web­site.  WTF is it with peo­ple and cen­tered text.  You just grab a copy of front page and slap some text in there with a pic­ture and you’re on the way to the Governor’s man­sion, right?  Wrong.  Fix it, so as not to give Lib­er­tar­i­ans every­where a bad name.  Don’t worry about nav­i­ga­tion or sub-pages, just throw every­thing on there and rely on peo­ple to scroll.  I lost inter­est with that statue of lib­erty tiled back­ground to be honest.

So, what about a con­gress­man who’s been there since 1979?  Has he had enough time to earn a few bucks?  Of course.  Too bad the guy that was hired to make his web­site never learned about con­trast.  The header is black, and the image it’s sit­ting on is mostly black.  Makes for dif­fi­cult read­ing.  The rest of the site isn’t too bad, if you like text that bleeds out of its box and white on light blue links, but…

So, part two is over, and it was mildly enter­tain­ing, but there won’t be a part three.  Not until the next pres­i­den­tial elec­tion.  As polit­i­cal sites go, these all suck.  If one presents itself that’s at least as bad as the first one in part one, I’ll post it as a stand-alone.  Feel free to con­tact your local politi­cian and tell him that his web­site sucks.  Maybe he’ll do some­thing about it.

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