Nothing is more frustrating and potentially damaging to a website owner than to be unable to reach their web designer. Maybe they’re sick, maybe they’re busy – or maybe they’ve gone out of business and didn’t bother to tell their clients! When you’ve been in the web business long enough, you’ll hear some strange tales.
Some clients come to us because they cannot track down their web designer to make site updates or changes. The story usually goes like this: “I had [friend/acquaintance/volunteer] offer to build me a campaign site. They [finished it/never finished it], and now I can’t get in touch with the person to make any changes…”
Or the web designer may be slow in making updates. That might not be terribly important early in a campaign, but when things start to move fast, and you need to react quickly, your campaign cannot be at the mercy of someone who will make a change ‘when they get around to it.’ A ‘free’ website by a volunteer is not a great deal when the designer puts you at the bottom of their priority list.
The lesson here is that you cannot place complete control of your campaign website in the hands of a single outsider.
You, as the candidate, need to be able to make changes to your own website. If someone is not able to make the update or a news item or text change needs to be made immediately, you need the ability to log in and do what you have to do. Timing is everything on the web. For breaking news, voters and reports go to the campaign websites for updates and reactions.
Whether you go with one of our political website design packages or you go with someone else, you need to have control over your own website – and your domain name.
In the worst cases, clients have had to register a completely new domain name and recreate their website because they were unable to reach their missing designer. One client of ours had to do this within a month of his election. Ouch!
The only thing legendary about Online Candidate is our ability to provide a great campaign website system that you control. Turnaround time is fast – a finished site design can be completed within a few business days. With our design customization and built-in, you don’t need to hire a web designer or programmer.
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