The Wardman Wire

The new Conservative website looks quite pretty. It is far prettier than the old version, certainly, and has more and better information on it. However, it is really quite “safe” in the end, and nothing is really very “eye grabbing” in aesthetic terms.

There is a nice number of sections on the site, such as policy, “where you live“, and the Conservative Wall.

Plus the Blue Blog. With the blog, however, I would have liked to see it looking that bit different to the rest of the site, to make it look a little more individual. It really needs to be plugged far more than it is and linked to from all pages. But how useful it is will depend on the frequency and quality of the posts made - which is something to be evaluated in the future. [One change that needs to be amde now is is a bit of spelling correction - "comments" has two only two letter m's - not three.]

The real test of the site, however, will depend on the content and how it kept updated. Content is king for a political website - it needs to b kept constantly up-to-date and be interactive. The Wall just isn’t all that interactive.

Overall, I’d give the site about 8/10.

Compared to the new Labourand Lib Demsites, however, there is no denying that it is the most impressive.