Re: Which Opposition party has the best website design?

The point here is that some people tend to judge a book by its cover, so I'm
judging a political party by their websites. If they can't maintain their
website properly, how to maintain their town councils if they win?


"The Bishop" <gado_gado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:52:23 +0800, "Woofy" <infopanich47@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>>What's the point here? And does it matter?
>
>
> More importantly ...... Is there a point in all these ...... ???
>
>>
>>"Independent" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Which Opposition party has the best website design? I visited 5 sites
>>> and
>>> did a study.
>>>
>>> 1) The Workers Party (http://www.wp.org.sg/)
>>>
>>> Comments - The light blue colour does'nt really look nice. They should
>>> change to army green. The photo essay layout could have been better. The
>>> updates are well, up to date. The website could be improved with more
>>> interactive features. The news articles are just words. Should add
>>> pictures to make reading more enjoyable. Overall the site is a bit ugly.
>>>
>>> 2) The Singapore Democratic Party (http://www.singaporedemocrat.org/)
>>>
>>> Comments - The front page was spread too big. Not that impressive. Lack
>>> of
>>> good quality photos. Or rather no good quality photos. The news articles
>>> just contain words. No pictures. Includes some sort of podcast which
>>> they
>>> called "radio" but why no transcript? Overall design - boring.
>>>
>>> 3) National Solidarity Party (http://nsp-singapore.org/)
>>> Comments - Clean white design. First page no picture all words? Too
>>> plain.
>>> No interaction with users. Overall design - the website tries to look
>>> professional but ended up looking lousy.
>>>
>>> 4) Singapore People's Party (http://www.spp.org.sg/)
>>> Comments - Very colourful. But the images seem to lose its resolution.
>>> The
>>> guy who designed it probably did not know how to use photoshop properly,
>>> just like the old new paper website. Updates are current. Good amount of
>>> pictures. Overall - content is there but website looks amateurish.
>>>
>>> 5) Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura [PKMS]
>>> (http://www.geocities.com/pkms218/)
>>> Comments - No money to buy own domain isssit? Again photos edited like
>>> the
>>> old new paper website, either too fat or too skinny. They do have rich
>>> content but mostly in malay. Overall - very messy design.
>>>
>>>
>>> So if these opposition political party wants to get the young voters
>>> votes, they have to get their website in order. Some primary school
>>> students can design far better websites than the ones above. Take a
>>> look
>>> at a recent web design competition for kids to understand what I mean.
>>> http://itclub.vs.moe.edu.sg/competition05/announcements.html .
>>>
>>


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