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Home  News Analysis of the web sites of presidential candidates, v.2.0
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Analysis of the web sites of presidential candidates, v.2.0 |
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5.04.2004. |
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Due to the great public interest, Metamorphosis publishes a refreshed and supplemented analysis of the web sites of the presidential candidates.
Due to the great public interest, Metamorphosis publishes a refreshed and supplemented analysis of the web sites of the presidential candidates (condition of April 5, 12:50 hrs). If the other candidates publish their web sites, they will be included in future analyses. Items marked with an asterisk (*) have been changed on the sites since the previous version of the analysis (April 2). The new sections (such as the one about the counters) are marked with an asterisk also. | Candidate | Branko Crvenkovski | Sashko Kedev | | Address | www.drzavnik.org.mk | www.kedev.com.mk | | Analysis of the address | Use of nonstandard transliteration of Macedonian language with English alphabet. According to the rule1 the letter "ж" should be written as "zh," and the address to be www.drzhavnik.org.mk. | Use of domain .com.mk, which refers to commercial firms. The usual practice for political subjects would be to use an .org.mk domain, and the address should be www.kedev.org.mk. | | Software used | WebBuilder | PHP Nuke | | Platform | Windows (Microsoft-IIS/6.0 server running on Windows Server 2003) | Unix (Apache server running on FreeBSD) | | License type | Commercial. | Free software (GNU/GPL). | | Proofread2 | No. | No. | | Use of "и" (i) with a dash, "e" with a dash (è), and "o" with a cap (ô).3 | No. | No. | | English version | None. | None. | | Albanian version | None. | None. | | Survey "who will you vote for" | Options: the four official candidates. | Options: the four official candidates, plus the options "I haven't decided," and "I won't vote." | | Internal4 counter* | No. | Yes. | | External5 (independent) counter* | No. | No. | | Public e-mail address | None. | None. | | Contact/interaction possibilities | Form-based web pages ("contact," "ask a question," "book of support"). | Form-based web pages ("contact") and option to leave comments to every article. | | Moderating of visitor reactions | Preventive: admins first read the comments, filter them, and then post them eventually. | Post-festum: readers enter comments, and the admins can review them afterwards, and can delete them/make invisible, eventually. | | Mailing list | Yes. | No. | | Multimedia: photographs | Yes. | Yes.* | | Multimedia: audio | Yes (campaign song). | Yes (campaign song, clips). | | Multimedia: video | Yes (clips). | Yes (clips).* | | Multimedia: comics* | No. | Yes. | | News about past events | Yes. | Yes. | | Announcements of future events | Yes. | Yes.* | | Section with links to other sites* | Yes. | No. | --- Remarks: - According to the standard for use of English Latin alphabet for modem communication accepted during the nineties, used by majority of Macedonian BBS community, Internet experts, and conscientious translators. The version of transliteration standard proposed by the authors of the book "Orthography" (Pravopis, 1998) uses the letter "j" (drzjavnik) instead of "h," making it completely unreadable for English-speakers.
- According to the Law for use of Macedonian language, all publicly issued texts have to be profread by an appropriately educated and authorized persons (a lector). The lector has to be signed within the publication.
- Letters of the Macedonian Cyrillic alphabet not supported by Microsoft's code page and keyboard.
- Counter application which is integral part of the website software, under ultimate control of the owner/admin.
- Counter application set on a different server, under control of independent company. These highly increase the credibility and transparency of the web sites. One of the most popular such counters is Sitemeter.
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