Elf Sternberg

Excellent photo, and nice size! I hate poor photos of candidates and tiny body/torso shots or conversley huge 'head' shots. It is a nice in your face size torso shot that makes her an easily recognizable face.

She gave me a great photo to begin with, although I spent a good solid hour in GIMP adjusting the cover of her jacket to fit in with the theme of the site. Now that you've mentioned you like the orange, I'm half-tempted to go back and revisit that decision since in her original photo it was somewhat orange. It would be an easy touch-up, and I have the original with its layers exploded, so I shouldn't have much trouble isolating "the jacket".

As someone who feels the stars and bars is horribly over-used everywhere in the US, I really liked the flag and the fade on it...artisitic and subtle...not in your face and brash.

Yeah, that's me. Master of subtlety. In this case, though, that was a serious design decision. It's really frackin' important that the Dems use the stars and bars, that they emphasize over and over that they're just as "American" as the Repubs, and have just as much right to the flag. I just didn't want to wrap the site in it like Bill O'Reilly naked with a flafel in hand.

The setup overall is great, I like how the banner with her pic stays at the top as one navigates the sub-layers.

Thanks. I'm working hard to remember that the secret of web design is CRAP: Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, Proximity. I'm also as lazy as an alligator: I made up a simple header and a pair of right bars (you'll notice that the right bar is smaller on inner pages; it's the long one with some things cut out) and assembled the pages programmatically. I really wanted to use ZenWeb to do that, because it would have forced me to learn Ruby, but I quickly ran out of time and did it in Python and PHP. It's what I know.

The orange is a really really nice colour contrast to the blue...it really makes the colours seem vibrant.

True, but it's going away after the picnic unless I can find a suitable color scheme that'll work for the client. The Washington State flag's colors are primary green and yellow, which would go really well with the red white and blue, doncha think? Sadly, I'll probably have to stick with the Old Glory palette because using state colors (for a state campaign, no less) would probably seem jarring and unpatriotic.

hope you don't mind me tossing in my two cents worth.

Not at all! This was fabulous feedback! Exactly what I needed, especially with your catching that silly typo in the donations section. Now I have to crank together a Contact and Privacy Policies page.