New Website That I Have Created To Promote The Liberty Movement

[TaftFan]

Your list is pretty accurate. After them it only gets worse and on to different levels. Maybe look at those who voted against Boehner as a clue. Labrador is very good and I think would make a great VP pick should Rand land the nomination (he will). Gohmert is good on some issues. Walter B. Jones on some issues? there's still a few more. Much better than even a few years ago anyway!

Love the site.

Walter Jones, Tom McClintock, Paul Broun, Steve Stockman, and Jimmy Duncan should be included. Not so sure about Labrador anymore. Gohmert wouldn't meet the qualifications IMO.

 

[TaftFan]

The JBS rankings are best used to see how people are voting.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/freedomindex/

 

[georgiaboy]

top notch, top notch.

 

[Warlord]

Walter Jones, Tom McClintock, Paul Broun, Steve Stockman, and Jimmy Duncan should be included. Not so sure about Labrador anymore. Gohmert wouldn't meet the qualifications IMO.

Got a lot of faith in Labrador. Would make a great VP pick for Rand. He wont let us down.

Those are good picks. we're doing a lot better than just a few years ago. Almost an embarrassment of riches.

McClintock has been there since 2008 btw... annoying how all of these good rep's get passed over for leadership.

 

[truthsaga]

I agree the sidebar could use a little more content, but I am sure as time goes by more content will be available to add in. The layout is appealing and inspiring as it had me looking back to when I first heard of these gentleman's names, along with my entrance into liberty movement.

One suggestion I have is to have a link where we can see the top 10 Liberty Crusader moments or the top moments from each crusader.

Great side!

 

[Petar]

Your list is pretty accurate. After them it only gets worse and on to different levels. Maybe look at those who voted against Boehner as a clue. Labrador is very good and I think would make a great VP pick should Rand land the nomination (he will). Gohmert is good on some issues. Walter B. Jones on some issues? there's still a few more. Much better than even a few years ago anyway!

Love the site.

Thanks man.

One thing it's a little slow loading them up when you click through at least to Massie clogged my browser up for a second and maybe the right hand sidebar can be improved?

Yeah, the Facebook feed on the right needs to be converted to AJAX or use some kind of caching. Hopefully my coder wizard buddy will be able to help me get that done for under $100.

I think the slow loading is due to the facebook integration or the youtube embedding. It's pretty bad. You should ditch it for disqus for comments and find some other way of doing this ?

I ended up going with the native commenting system, with a plugin that enables comments from using Facebook and Twitter accounts.

The advantage is that it loads much faster, but it still takes a couple seconds to actually make a comment.

Basically there's too many youtubes embeded and its hurting flash in the browser I think... nearly a dozen of them on Amash's page. I dont know if facebook integration is making it slow or if its the youtube's. Probably the youtube's as facebook's servers should be fast. You should have no more than 3 posts on each page with a break saying "next page".

Reduce the number of posts per page as there's too many youtube's then lets see how fast it is.

If still slow then can you reduce last 7 facebook posts to maybe last 5? 3? keep playing with it and optimizing.

I love the concept though it's very good idea to promote multiple candidates and build interest. Maybe give them a subdomain? like massie.libertycrusader.com - then maybe their own forum to keep users on the site and coming back.. collect their email etc this is useful to help further promote them in the future or help raise money and then other candidates.

Definitely do a "Get Tom Massie updates in your email" and put that box somewhere prominent to collect email addresses. This would make it a fine activist tool for the movement if you can get people's emails who are specifically interested in a candidate and maybe email them a newsletter once a fortnight with the latest posts, news, videos , votes or whatever.

Also maybe you need a brief bio of each candidate at the top to introduce people to who they are what their district is... can get this info from their wikipedia's.

The site uses infinite scroll, so it only actually loads 5 posts at a time.

The Facebook feed thing on the right really is what is killing the site's performance. It needs to be converted to AJAX.

I was originally using subdomains with multiblogs, but that was actually a maintenance nightmare.

Much easier to use categories.

I really do need to develop email subscriptions, and perhaps a bio for each rep in their category.

Thank you very much for your encouraging statements.

It's good design. You may want to consider having no more than 5 videos on the front page.

Thank you very much, and please see above comments.

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Maybe, later on, you could add an "Almost crusaders" section that talked about those that Warlord mentioned, like Jones, etc... You could show how these could move to the liberty platform, if only...

Thanks a lot Clyde.

Hopefully the site ends up helping the people who are already with us, and then more will no doubt come forward when they are successful.

Definitely took a while to load, but I have a slow connection. I don't think I'd get rid of the FB parts of it, it's nice to have all that in one place.

Very classy looking site, love the sketches, and very good choices in candidates to support. Perhaps if you have a link to each person's bio somewhere, that would be good too.

Thanks Amy, I'll try to speed that up for you.

Seems to scroll slow , but I lke it .

Thanks.

Nice,Bookmarked.

Thank you.

Well, what's this? A website that concisely represents a liberty-based message and serves as a useful tool for assisting in the waking of minds? I believe I will share the link via email to my Neocon parents. They luuuv Rand Paul, or so they say - I believe their hearts are in the right place even if their minds are not.

Place easily digestible information before folks such as they, as this site does, and they just might come around in time for 2016.

Thank you very much for the very encouraging assessment.

Hopefully your parents get into in and start commenting on things.

That's pretty much what I thought of the site in terms of being different from what we do here (which most people don't go for) yet focuses on all media and relevant postings about true, pro-liberty politicians. The site name is also very appropriate and I think this is a great hub for us to spread around to conservative types as a way for them to keep up to speed on what the real politician heroes are up to. It's modeled similar to daily paul w/o all of their nonsense. Top shelf for sure.

Thank you very much.

I almost couldn't believe that the domain name was available.

The goal of this website is to give us die-hard libertarians a way to have an effect in mainstream US politics.

Hopefully we all succeed.

Yes, I did too.

Thanks for bookmarking.

nice

Thanks.

That's really nice Petar. I like how you rank them. Bookmarked and I will show this to people we have coming over for the Fourth.

Thanks a lot man. Please have everyone leave some comments if possible. Happy upcoming 4th of July!

I think it looks good.

Thanks Angela.

Walter Jones, Tom McClintock, Paul Broun, Steve Stockman, and Jimmy Duncan should be included. Not so sure about Labrador anymore. Gohmert wouldn't meet the qualifications IMO.

The JBS rankings are best used to see how people are voting.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/freedomindex/

Thanks, I'll have to figure out who to add in the future.

top notch, top notch.

Thank you.

I agree the sidebar could use a little more content, but I am sure as time goes by more content will be available to add in. The layout is appealing and inspiring as it had me looking back to when I first heard of these gentleman's names, along with my entrance into liberty movement.

One suggestion I have is to have a link where we can see the top 10 Liberty Crusader moments or the top moments from each crusader.

Great side!

Thanks, that's really nice to hear that you found it interesting, and I do like your idea regarding some kind of top 10 something or the other.

Perhaps a "most commented posts" link?

I'll have to figure that out.

 

[WhistlinDave]

Looks great so far!! I like it a lot!! I agree that when you start scrolling down more, it loads a bit slowly, but--that happens to me on Facebook too and it's a lot worse than your site. So it aint' all that bad. Any time you have that much content pulled in from other sites, there's bound to be some hanging up/lagging as the page becomes more and more populated, the further down you scroll. Overall I think this is a great start!! I also think adding e-mail subscription functionality would be great.

I'll be sharing this on FB and Twitter!

Just one thing though... I think you forgot a couple freedom fighters. Where are McCain, Graham, and Feinstein?

(Kidding of course.) Great job, Petar!! Really great concept to bring them all together in one spot!

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I know that Thomas has a personal friendship with Jim Bridenstine, but I wouldn't trust the guy as far as I could throw him. As far as I can tell, his foreign policy is identical to Graham and McCain. I would like to be proven wrong, but after hearing an interview with him, I was less than impressed.

 

[Petar]

I know that Thomas has a personal friendship with Jim Bridenstine, but I wouldn't trust the guy as far as I could throw him. As far as I can tell, his foreign policy is identical to Graham and McCain. I would like to be proven wrong, but after hearing an interview with him, I was less than impressed.

If you go and add some comments to the site then that would be pretty cool.

 

[QuickZ06]

Very good job man, site looks slick. I'm outta rep for Petar, someone hook hm up for me

 

[LibertyEagle]

I wouldn't redraw the "Recent comment" block and the ads every time the page is scrolled down. I found this distracting and irritating.

 

[Petar]

I wouldn't redraw the "Recent comment" block and the ads every time the page is scrolled down. I found this distracting and irritating.

Didn't previously occur to me that that could be irritating, but I definitely see how you could be right. I was hoping to just really encourage people into commenting on the site.

 

[Origanalist]

I have a comment there, just wishing you success though.

 

[QuickZ06]

Didn't previously occur to me that that could be irritating, but I definitely see how you could be right. I was hoping to just really encourage people into commenting on the site.

I agree with LE as well, that was the only thing that was really distracting me. I never really do like those scroll things.

 

[RickyJ]

I agree with Warlord, you are embedding too many videos for one page. It is slow loading. The design is nice though.

 

[QuickZ06]

I agree with Warlord, you are embedding too many videos for one page. It is slow loading. The design is nice though.

Not to derail the thread but what is this about with Warlord, Account Restricted. Admin to review account standing?

 

[Origanalist]

I think he's banned for good, but that's just a guess. I think the sock puppets are getting ban hammered so to speak.

 

[RickyJ]

I would make the recent comment section stay in place and not scroll up and then scroll back into view. The JavaScript to do that could be slowing it down in addition to the all the flash videos embedded from YouTube. I hate sites that scroll things back on the screen. Sorry I am being so critical, I am a web developer too and just want to let you know what I think can be improved.

 

[QuickZ06]

I think he's banned for good, but that's just a guess. I think the sock puppets are getting ban hammered so to speak.

Some of you guys/gals are a lot better at telling who is who on here. One account for me, I like to make things easier for the government. I mean they got a pretty big job you know, keeping us safe and all.

 

[Cap]

Good idea Petar, well done.