Liberal Campaign Websites

Clients: Kirk Cox Campaign, Rick Welsford Campaign, Darian Huskilson Campaign

Come election season, I start to get busy. Campaign websites usually need to have been up yesterday, so they're high-pressure and under a good deal of scrutiny sometimes.

Kirk Cox

Kirk knew exactly what he was looking for when he approached me to build him a website to promote his campaign -- something clean and easy-to-use. We settled on a rather straightforward layout and I built him a custom CMS to modify and add website content.

Darian Huskilson

With the Canadian federal election suddenly looming and the holiday season reaching the apex of its frenzy, Darian needed his campaign website up and running yesterday. It took about a week instead, and since I'd decided it was the perfect time to finally switch over to PHP5 from PHP4 (see: his blog needed to use a function only available in PHP5), I spent much of that week staring at an awful lot of code. He wanted the website to be both fun and professional at the same time, and to appeal to youth without seeming childish. Luckily, the Liberals have a great colour scheme and I think that served to unify what may otherwise have been in danger of being a very busy design. This website again was complemented by an easy-to-use integrated admin panel allowing campaign workers to upload photos, write blog and news entries, add question & answers, screen comments, and administer a mailing list.

Rick Welsford

Rick wanted me to take the bones of Darian's site to build his. We altered the layout a little, and updated the functionality quite substantially, and ended up with a website similar in appearance, but quite different in functionality. This website got a favourable review from the History of Nova Scotia:

This website design is distinctly above average. Except for its use of frames, I'd nominate it for inclusion in the short list for Best Candidate's Website of the 2006 Nova Scotia Election.

The website didn't actually use frames, either—that was just how the domain was forwarded.