A significant improvement. I really like the About Vic page.

Comments…

First off, the front door. You shouldn’t have to scroll down to enter the main area of the site. As a rule I hate splash pages, but if you are going to use them, make sure that it is as easy as possible for people to figure out how to get in. The last thing that you want is for people to get to your store, and then leave because they can’t figure out how to open the door. The simple solution to that is to make the graphic on the frontdoor a hyperlink to the main page, or to a page with more information about the event on the graphic.

On the blog section, you can’t direct link to specific entries which makes it much harder for other blogs to promote them. This is a very common problem with campaign websites.

On the main page:

  1. Never use graphics that represent multimedia controls for anything but multimedia controls. If you have graphics that look like they trigger an audio or video file, make sure that they do, or don’t use them.

  2. Coming soon. There’s almost never a reason to say this on a site. Simply say nothing, then people won’t know that you didn’t do something that you plan on doing. Why should I click on a link to a page that goes nowhere? Links are very valuable on campaign websites.

  3. Always make sure that you check your links on the site. Links are VERY valuable. See point 2.

  4. The page for the event doesn’t link to an internet mapping program so that it’s easy for people to get to the event that you want them to go to. It’s very easy to hyperlink an address with google maps. Try to make it as easy as possible for people to help you.