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Labour have launched their new site. They seem to be really taking the blog thing to heart with the whole site running as a blog. However it does not at the moment allow you to post comments. They just seem to disappear into cyberspace. It will be interesting to see will they allow trackbacks (let’s test that). They have the ability to take donations online, something that has proved a very important source of funding in America. The policies are laid out in a nice clean format, they also have a Pat on Tour section and, unlike Fine Gael’s “website,” it has a feed. Now, I don’t have the time to give the site a full once over, but it certainly is the best of all the parties websites, though it does seem to be hosted by a British company—so much for buying Irish.
There is a bit of a round up by the Labour Youth chair on the new site. Blogging, Google Maps (with correctly laid out constituencies), RSS Feeds, a link to their Flickr photostream, tagging and some reformatted mailing list functionality.
At least it was an Irish company or at least Tom Duke who seems to have actually done the work for Labour.
I’m not sure but are Labour the first party to offer online donations ?
They seem to have missed the idea of the activist center as found on most US websites now but maybe that was deliberate.
I’ll need to take a deeper look and play around with it for a bit, but I do like the Google Maps.
The comments are moderated, and the moderators are all at the launch, of course!
“Although it does seem to be hosted by a British company so much for buying Irish.”
There used to be a company called Anu based in the west of Ireland somewhere, I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the same company after a little relocation. The fact that they offer Lasso hosting makes me think they must be the same company - nobody offers Lasso hosting.
“Fine Gael’s “website””
I wouldn’t say that I am a huge fan of it, but surely despite its flaws it is actually, most definitely a website?
“it does seem to be hosted by a British company—so much for buying Irish”
Anu is an Irish company. They were forced to use a british host because of the government’s failure to roll out broadband.