Musings

Thoughts on writing, web design, and business

Worst. Political. Web sites. EVER.

Most politicians have pretty decent web sites that tell you a little about themselves and the issues they stand for. Some, worse yet, have web sites that make them look sillier than if they had no site at all.

CNet has a run down of the worst political web sites of the 2006 election season. The biggest sin? No content. You'd think this would be common sense, but, well, these are politicians....

Blog roll

» Adaptive Path Where you'll find articles about the "bleeding edge" of web design (BTW, these are the guys who coined the term AJAX).

» A List Apart All the cool web designers read Zeldman's online mag.

» Bob Bly A legend in the copy writing profession.

» Content Wrangler Lots of technical writing tips and tricks.

» Copyblogger One of the most prolific tutorial-based copy writing blogs around.

» Jakob Nielsen Guru and cover model for web usability.

» Meryl.net The "Content Maven" brings you valuable copy writing tips and insights on the writing life.

» Seth Godin Marketing guru for the new economy.

» Signal vs. Noise Official blog of 37signals, the web design company to which all small firms aspire.

» Web Standards Project Can I get an "Amen?"

» Writing White Papers Primary focus is on white papers, but also has general copy writing and marketing tips.

» Zeldman One of the first web standards evangelists.