Stephanie Strong Takes My Advice, Makes Minor Web Improvements

One small sign that Stephanie Strong might be a nominally viable candidate for U.S. House: she took my advice on her Web page. Last week she made the faux pas of announcing her website before she had anything worthwhile on it. It looked like this:

I offered several pieces of advice for fixing her Web problems. Strong's website now looks like this:

Fixed:

1. Strong added a functional e-mail link so interested voters and petition circulators could contact her. The usefulness of her site thus went from zero to 1%... a pretty darned important 1%.
2. She got rid of the somewhat gloomy and definitely non-South Dakota default image from GoDaddy.com. The replacement background is a flat sickly green, but again, still better than the previous distraction.
3. She added spaces to the title to get rid of the amusing separation between "Cong" and "Ress." (But I'm still aching for a "for" between "Stephanie Strong" and "Congress.")
4. She even changed her font from the secretly Leftist "Veggieburger" to the somewhat more Right-leaning "EastMarket." (Wait: East Market? Is that a subtle nod to Romney? Uh oh!)

Now lest you think a Republican taking advice from a Democrat blogger is a recipe for disaster, consider: during the 2010 election, I had a political conversation or two with another GOP lady outsider, my Winfred neighbor Patricia Stricherz. She even bought an ad on my stinky liberal blog. And she won.

Come on, Stephanie: if you're looking to challenge Rep. Kristi Noem, where better to advertise than right here, on your best source for campaign material?

And let's get some substance up on your website. Of you're going to ask people to help you gather signatures, you need to give them a reason to help! Put up some text, even if it's just three bullet points, to tell your potential supporters what you stand for.