Help me out guys… it’ll only take a minute.

I started reading Professors Ireland and Nash’s book Winning Campaigns Online and really enjoyed chapter six’s outline of the “must-haves” for a campaign website, and I wholeheartedly agree that the user friendly aspect is essential. Likewise, I believe Jakob Neilsen supported the same thesis well in his article Usability 101: Introduction to Usability.

I also agree with their position that stated: voters under 30-years-old are very likely to take their impressions of a candidate sometimes solely based on the campaign’s website.
For instance, I turned to candidate’s websites this past election cycle in an effort to understand their positions on issues that I care about.

Switching gears a bit… As a few of you know I am interning at NACFAM National Council for Advanced Manufacturing which is the National Council for Advanced Manufacturing. NACFAM is currently renovating their website and looking into changing the entire look and feel of the website.

We’ve done so much in this class looking at improving usability online. If you could take like five minutes to check it out and come back to my blog and give me any suggestions you may have for improving the site (especially anything that links with the principles from Ireland/Nash’s book, ch. 6), I’d really appreciate it. Thanks!