Coding for Bush

Whew. GWBush04.com now has a new look, which explains my absence from posting here in a while.

Go check it out if you haven’t seen it.

Observant readers should hopefully make a connection between that and the leaked images of what the official Bush Campaign site will look like. The official site will eventually be seen by millions, so matching it on my version seemed like an obvious thing to try.

It turns out I started making subtle changes on purpose based on my own design sensibilities. That was an interesting thing. The colors of the official one didn’t really do it for me, for example. Also, keep in mind that I had no code from the official site to work with — only compressed screengrabs.

There’s a new editorial from Strom Thurmond up there, and I’ll be working on more content shortly. If anyone would like to submit an article or ideas for articles, I’m interested.

I’m not sure if this is noteworthy or not, but the news backend for GWBush04 is being run with plain-old MovableType blogging software. My technique is to avoid using the “styles” template completely, and instead publish the news bits as separate html files which then get brought into the homepage using php “require” statements.

If anybody has comments or suggestions, I’d appreciate them.