I have a friend who bases his opinion on an issue, in some part and probably a major part, by the quality of their website. When I was trying to get him to look at the Green candidates in the last election, he complained about the Green Party website...it just didn't match up to the bells and whistles that the Dems and Reps had on theirs.

My question to him...how do grass roots organizations have a chance if everyone felt this way?

Being in the web development business, I can understand that it doesn't take a huge amount of brains to develop a good website. On the other hand, my expertise in doing this may be matched equally by someone who doesn't know a thing about HTML, but has all the facts on an important issue of the day.

The more I learn, in fact, I want to almost run the other way when I see a fancy, Madison Avenue type site trying to get my $$$$s, my votes, or my mind!