AndrewHalcro,com - Political Site Using Drupal
webwright - November 18, 2005 - 20:03
Andrew Halcro is a columnist in Anchorage, Alaska who is likely to make a run at the governor's chair this spring.
Anyhoo, he's a pretty cool moderate republican who wanted to aggressively share his positions with people, rather than the standard "I care about education, roads, and safety" that you see on most politicians web site (gosh, I sure hope they don't offend anyone with those radical ideas!).
It features a mess of categorized political articles written by Halcro, a snazzy non-political design, etc. When he actually announces his bid, I'll roll the donation module into it.
Andrew is a technology-newbie, but is loving the power that Drupal gives him.]
/cheer Drupal
Regards,
-Tony
okay
I think you are using a red background image? Why dont you just use red as the background and white as the header image?
Since this is a pollies website - why not post a picture of him in the header? (Coz I find the website a bit bland - lack of images)
But nice writing (for the labels) - is that a font or is it scanned?
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Hope you won't mind a couple of comments and suggestions...
The text on the site is really hard to read and not pleasant to look at. I would recommend losing the white text on red background and go with something more conventional and easier to read. Also ditch the italics. On machines without ClearType or equivalent, italic text can be quite ugly and hard to read. It's best used sparingly.
You want people to *read* what Andrew has to say, not admire the pretty background.
Speaking of background, the non-scrolling background can make scrolling the page really slow on older machines. I'd suggest getting rid of it too.
p.s. It's "toe the line", not "tow the line". :-)