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This
is one serious site. Forbes has dug down into his very deep pockets
and pulled out the most technically smooth, Net-savvy site of the
bunch. This is no hastily-slapped-together-from-a-brochure site, but
has a search function, free postcards, wallpaper, banner ads and logos,
automatic notification of site updates, and the utterly bonus right
and left navigation bars. There are pages and pages of poll links,
plus streaming video and audio. This guy either knows how to work
the Net or has the sense to hire people who do.
Someone
did get a little too cutesy for our tastes with the "Personal Control
Panel" (giving you personal control of taxes, social security, schooling),
the "Moral Compass" (compass graphic), and the "Freedom Passport"
(passport graphic), but it probably looks just sharp as a tack to
those folks whose Internet experience doesn't go too far from the
safety of AOL and Yahoo!.
A
few graphics look like they were copped from a checkout line tabloid
with the text: IMPORTANT POLICY STATEMENT screaming across the top.
In
spite of our petty nitpicking, overall this is a very professional,
if occasionally cliched, setup.
Navigation
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None,
dammit. Navigation is naturally smooth, clear and quick. Downloads
are prompt and easy to access.
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