Advocacy

DanPowers.org, a FEC-compatible federal congressional campaign website advocating DFLer Dan Powers (in Minnesota we call Democrats DFLers, for Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party). It was a collaborative project with a few other folks and turned out nicely, in part due to a great template I built from. This was done using the Fusion theme, which I've become a huge fan of. The Facebook/Twitter look is nice, and it was helpful that Facebook FanBox' blue trim matches the site's blue color scheme.

It's got a nice events calendar, a standard blog page, and a front page using Panels/Ctools, which I really enjoyed. I liked the font [two main fonts, actually] as well -- it led me into looking up which fonts are really available for use on Interwebs nowadays. Powers' opponent, Republican US Rep. John Kline, is deeply uncool on many levels, so it was fun for me to get a site out there against him!

The Minnesota Paid Sick Days Coalition (PaidsickdaysMN.com) was a fun project; the goal was to make a straightforward presentation of the social and economic benefits of paid sick days in Minnesota. I decided to step things up with Scribd and iPaper module to serve up presentation of PDFs -- after all, everyone hates downloading PDFs to look at 'em.

Another important feature was using Webform to handle forms for stories of Minnesotans' health/workplace problems. Also has the Facebook/Twitter integration de rigeur.