Background: Six years ago I designed candidate Nicole LeFavour’s website as she was running in her first primary for the Idaho District 19 House seat. She is now a State Senator in the same district. I volunteered six years ago to design her website (it’s my way contributing to political campaigns that I support!). Back in 2004, we designed a static website mostly around the needs of the campaign, but as you can imagine, after 6 years the information on the site had outgrown its original structure. This winter, I volunteered to give the site a face-lift.
Result: Today, we revealed a new database-powered website built on the open-source Joomla content management system that will be easy for Senator LeFavour and her staff to maintain. The features include:
- AddThis buttons on all the content pages to quickly share content with Facebook and social networking sites.
- Twitter feed featured at the top of every page to keep visitors focused on the most recent announcements.
- An event calendar integrated with Google Maps.
- Streaming content from Nicole’s Typepad blog, “Notes From the Floor.”
- Improved video content streamed from YouTube.
- Google Analytics to track user experience and website traffic.
- Easy email sign up forms to add to volunteer lists and email networking lists.
- Interactive visitor polls to gauge constituent opinions on relevant political issues.
- An administrator interface that makes updating and adding new content easy!
I hope Senator LeFavour and her constituents appreciate the new and improved website and look forward to assisting my Favour-ite Idaho politician in the legislative session ahead! Don’t forget to check out the site and send me your feedback!