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Here’s an interesting contrast between the GOP, which spent $1.4 million on a buggy, incomplete website redesign, and the Democratic White House, where they just launched a redesign of the site using the open source Content Management System (CMS), Drupal. (And it looks great.) Publisher Tim O’Reilly has a good ...
Unbelievable. The Republican Party’s pathetically inept new website actually cost them more than a million dollars to set up: Entering digital age an expensive proposition for GOP. And for that $1.4 million, they got a website that crashed continuously on its launch day, had almost no real content, was mocked ...
A Ron Paul lunatic has been spamming the official GOP website since October 14th with insane, offensive, and/or antisemitic pictures like these: Thomas Kubica’s Photos. Unbelievable. Is anyone awake over there at this shiny new website that’s not really a website?
The new gop.com site is a gift of comedy that keeps on giving. Digging around in the recent Google cache of the site, we find the page where prospective interns can apply, with this heaping serving of irony: The New Media division is responsible for ensuring there is an ...
Michael Steele’s blog has changed its name from “What Up?” to “Change the Game.” Too late, Michael. I think the original name has already been noticed. And I thought “change” was now a dirty word ... wasn’t it?
So what does the wingnut blogosphere have to say about the totally embarrassing launch of the GOP’s new website that’s not really a website? Hot Air: nothing. Michelle Malkin: zero. Ace of Spades HQ: zip. Gateway Pundit: zilch. Power Line: nada. (Don’t worry — I’m sure they’ll have something to ...
GOP, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Web Design, Fail, Right Wing, blogs
From RNC chairman Michael Steele’s hip new “What Up?” blog: The Internet has been around a while, now. UPDATE at 10/13/09 1:48:50 pm: And as soon as I post the quote of the day, we have competition — also from Michael Steele: It’s not even really a ...
You’ve got to be kidding. GOP Posts Password, Admin Instructions on New Web Site. The fail just keeps getting more failish. Also see: New GOP Site: NSFW
Someone please tell me that Michael Steele’s “blog” on the newly redesigned GOP website isn’t really named “What Up?” And even worse, the new website violates one of the cardinal rules of web design: web pages should never make sound without the visitor’s consent. The GOP home page has a ...
Noted designer Andy Rutledge went off the reservation, dared to imagine a redesign of the USA.gov website under an Obama administration, and discovered the true meaning of dissent: The Design of (the wrong sort of) Dissent. I often read about and hear about how designers must have the courage ...
Some very cool politically informed graphics from design student Heather Mantovani, at Andy Rutledge’s place: Design in the Sociopolitical Arena.
Election 2008, Barack Obama, John McCain, Web Design, Graphic Design
If you’re using Internet Explorer version 6, you may have noticed the left sidebar seemingly disappearing. It wasn’t really disappearing, it was being pushed down to the bottom of the page when the “Top Rated Links” area opened up. The reason: without getting too technical, Internet Explorer is simply the ...
Tech Note, LGF Blog Engine, CSS, HTML, Web Design, Internet Explorer, IE6
If you were having trouble seeing all the comments in longer threads with Firefox 3, reload the page and this should now be fixed. Apparently the Windows version of Firefox has a serious bug with its implementation of the CSS “overflow” property, which we added to a certain page element ...
The latest change behind the scenes is huge, but hopefully you won’t even notice. Ever since LGF began, back in the Paleostinky Era, our main template has been based around a simple HTML table with three columns. No nested tables (gasp!) or anything like that, but in the world of ...
In a great post, noted designer Andy Rutledge imagines what the USA.gov website will look like after being redesigned by an Obama administration: USA.gov Redux. For the purposes of this redux exercise, let’s imagine that Barack Obama has won the White House. In keeping with the theme of change ...
Amazingly, even after it was pointed out to them, there are still quite a few wide open directories at the Barack Obama campaign web site; here’s one: Index of /images/afam. I’m astounded that even after they became aware of numerous open directories and closed them, they didn’t check the entire ...
Discovered in the directory left wide open by the Obama site designers: a PDF file containing Obama’s plan to “hold accountable any perpetrators of war crimes” in Iraq. And something tells me they don’t mean Al Qaeda. (Hat tip: Kaitian868.)
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Internet, Web Design, Iraq, War Crimes
The Barack Obama web designers have left a directory wide open: Index of /my. This is the directory for the my.barackobama.com site, and they neglected to disable directory indexes. Amateurish beyond belief. (Hat tip: Dasher.) UPDATE at 6/8/08 10:19:11 pm: Their CSS directory is also wide open. UPDATE at 6/8/08 ...