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Some comments:

Good turn around time.

Try putting black edges around your title text. Right now, they are just blending in with the background. The political background is a neat idea. Designing for it dynamically will be hard though. Set up A/B testing and test the various backgrounds you have, as well as backgrounds from subtlepatterns.com (just in case).

Rotate the bottom info bar so that it is horizontal instead of vertical. Nobody cares about the IO name I don't think. At this point the total message should be simple: "Send a postcard to your congressperson, PERIOD".

Use javascript to encode the message and congressperson into the url. Backbone has a way to do this. That way people can tweet out "Send THIS GUY a piece of your mind. I did! Here's my message! postcongress.com?senator='Dick Durbin'&message='Bro, come on. Taxes?'"

Not enough social buttons. Seriously, you need more buttons. Tweets and likes from political active people will garner attention from like minds.

Why don't I see any adwords from you here yet? http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mail+your+congressman (no sacarsm intended, mostly this link was shorter).

Change the font that the message naturally displays with. Times New Roman doesn't look right to me. Also, include a picture of a real, finished card on the site.

Good luck!



Great feedback. I really like the idea of encoding the message and congressperson into the url and making that easily shareable.

And on the adwords, I must be missing 'mail your congressman' in my keywords. I definitely have 'write my rep, etc'.

I also really like the a/b testing idea.


Yeah i really concur with the idea that the website needs more social buttons. I want to tweet about this website!


You can definitely do it of your own accord for now. :) There is a tweet button after purchase.


Some of those improvements are live now.




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