Lib Dem Euro Election Website

[miss_s_b]

Very occasionally I might appear to be a bit partisan about my politics. People think that when I link to things like the Tory Atlas of the World, or pick on Labour posters on Liberal Conspiracy, that I wouldn't pick on my own side like that. Well, that's where you are wrong, people, that's where you are wrong.

I got an email today from a wonk at Cowley Street asking me, as a Lib Dem blogger, to have a look at the party's Euro website and big it up on my blog. I looked at the party's Euro website. And then I took a red pen to it. This is the result:



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At the end of the day we can't hope to beat the big two unless we are substantially better than them at shit like this. And yes, I know that they have armies of overpaid mercenaries and we have but a few overstretched volunteers, but I thought one volunteer was worth ten hired men?

E-, Lib Dem site designers. See me after class.

((And yes, I'm still thinking about that other post. My bath was very nice, though, and I finished my book in it - Witches Abroad, again, since you ask))

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Comments

Re: Is it after class yet?

[(Anonymous)]

Happy mediums are good :-)

But I'll also happily admit to being sceptical about comments along the lines of 'white space is wasted' because blank space (used well) isn't wasted, it makes things better.

Look at the Google homepage for example. Someone could condemn it for being a wasteful design disaster as it has all that unused whitespace, but I don't think that many people would agree with them :-)

Re: Is it after class yet?

[miss_s_b]

Yes, but the google homepage only has one function. This website has lots of functions. Design should follow function, not the other way around; you are right that whitespace used well isn't wasted, but whitespace that is there for the sake of it is wasted, and whitespace that makes it so that you have more than two-thirds of the page on first load as header is needlessly annoying every single person who visits the site. Yes, the google homepage has a lot of whitespace, but you still don't have to scroll on it.

Design following function is why all the bitching about my colourscheme annoys me - its primary function is to provide ME with a feedreader in a scheme that doesn't hurt my eyes.