Romney campaign got its IT from Best Buy, Staples, and friends

[MineralMan]

6. It's a lot like some of the businesses for which I've

rewritten their entire websites, working with a very good web designer. The old website was created by some kid who knew some HTML and Java. Badly written, and aimed at an audience in their twenties, those websites simply generated no business. Once the owner figures out that they have a sucky website and hires pros to revamp it, they're always amazed that the new website actually generates business for them.

The Republicans are still hiring their nephews to build their IT systems, and staffing their IT efforts with unpaid volunteers. They're getting exactly what they paid for.

True story: One of the websites we revamped a couple of years ago had all of its main navigation links text in the background color until you moused over them. Only then could you see them at all. Pretty cool, huh? It really kept the home page uncluttered, I guess.