{"id":554,"date":"2005-12-01T01:44:03-05:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T06:44:03+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2005-12-07T02:22:12-05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T07:22:12+00:00","slug":"more-website-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/more-website-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"More website notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some stream-of-consciousness impressions as I go through the big three<\/cite> party websites.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

NDP: features a prominent “youth” link on the main page. Nice. Items in the RSS feed are just a headline and a one-sentence summary; I want full content! Why am I only getting the “rapid response” items in my aggregator? There are lots of headlines and stories and they must be posted somewhere. Aha… the RSS feed on the headlines page covers all categories. There’s no indication that feeds are different, boo. This is a nice-looking site… I’ve never been a big fan of the green-and-orange colour scheme, but it’s toned down or integrated better, making everything more appealing to the eye than either of the other two.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Conservatives: next in the menus after “founding principles” is “c-boutique”, the party store. Seems apt. As long as I use Flashblock I can see the dropdown menus, but now I can’t navigate into them because they disappear as soon as I move the mouse from the menu title. Fortunately the title is clickable, but that only gets me to the first item and there’s no navigation to the rest. The tour blog… no RSS feed which means I probably won’t see it again. Started off a little lighthearted and focused on the campaign, but quickly gets into anti-Liberal rhetoric. Strange that it’s anonymous… the writer refers to him\/herself but isn’t named. Who is “I”?<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Curiouser and curiouser:<\/p>\r\n

By now, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve had a chance to visit the tour blog. [javascript:<\/code> link excised –ed.] It\u2019s being written by a good friend of mine from inside Harper\u2019s bus!<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n

Like the official Conservative campaign blog, and despite the familiar tone with which the above is written, the “youth blog” is also<\/em> entirely anonymous. Reading the “About Us” page doesn’t help either: Who are we? We are young conservatives…. we are CPC Energy.<\/q><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Liberals: Feschuk’s campaign blog is funny, but there’s no<\/del> and now there’s an<\/ins> RSS feed<\/a>. Hey, why don’t you add one to be nice to that minion of Jason Kenney’s? Might as well let him\/her misinterpret your posts on the fly. Podcasting link looks interesting but there’s no content yet—see previous RSS comment. Hmm, the Liberals have youth, women’s, seniors and aboriginal “commissions” (which I guess are internal party groups). Too bad they’re logos with tiny burned-in graphical text… I don’t know many seniors who’ll be able to see the graphic meant for them, and the aboriginal peoples logo is almost unreadable in those colours at that size.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Sheesh, it’s 2 a.m.? That’s enough for tonight.<\/p><\/ins><\/div>

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