It’s a start.

The Virginia Democrats have replaced their terrible website with a much-less ugly website. It hasn’t gained a great deal in functionality, they have the URLs of death (ie, http://www.vademocrats.org/Who_We_Are/Democratic_organizations.asp — caps, underscores, exposed filename extensions; to be fair, they’re not nearly as terrible as URLs on the City of Charlottesville’s website, which consists entirely of addresses like http://www.charlottesville.org/default.asp?pageid=AF20BD16-0C74-4DB6-BD95-5067A83B8FC6), there’s no blog (a feature that would serve the state party very well), but at least there’s now a structure that will allow such improvements. I take what I can get.

Published by Waldo Jaquith

Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »