Election Project – Beta!

We managed to finalize the blog for the fictional Democratic Christian Filipino Party (DCFP) of our student project. We? This group consists out of my girlfriend Katharina Schnitzer and two wonderful companions of our student group Torben Behmer and Kristin Balke, and with me the four of us represent this political party’s website for the Election Project course this term.

Why not using a blog for our election campaign project?
Here’s a list of reasons…
1. We do not need to rent an extra serverspace.
2. We must not rely on our lector to get updates online.
3. We can modify the content any time.
4. It’s almost easy to use without great HTML knowledge.
5. Everybody can contribute new articles and input to the „website“.
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n. well, enough for now! Everyone has most personal issues why to use a blog instead of a handmade crafted html website. It’s automated, it’s dynamic, it’s modern.

About the DCFP’s technic background: Of course I used the Blogspirit software package to create this blog a few weeks ago and most of it’s original functionality remained. However, I modified the templates to show just the headlines and category names at the Main Page – while the blog’s articles are fully extended in the archive, categories and in the permalinks. I basically erased the sidebars‘ content such as the calendars, recent articles and comments, and on top of this, I only need to manage to get the Search-Engine and Join-Us areas operational… oops ;) !