Some of the websites for City Council candidates running for Jimmy Kelly's seat were obviously designed by friends using Yahoo! or Sitebuilder. (In one case the CSS file links directly into the site for a certain basketball coach.) Others were assembled by pros.

The good news is that they all have webpages, the bad news is, well, among other things, none is a blog. This assessment is of the websites only, not the candidate or message.

Bob Ferrara - Simple layout, plain color scheme, clean menu structure - boring.

Ed Flynn - Nice graphics, sensible layout. Points off for use of the word, "cyberspace."

Brian Mahoney - Amateurish (non-link text underlined, mailto tag attached to a phone number) but unintentionally cutting-edge in its clean simplicity. I like this one.

Mary Cooney - This site does what a campaign website needs to, but not much more.

Bob O'Shea - High production values, photo montage, but ultimately this professionally designed page doesn't jump out from the pack.

Bill Linehan - It looks like the guy who does the yard signs designed the page. Actually, not bad.

Susan Passoni - Another professionally designed site, this page even has some interesting elements, such as an updated events schedule and a video message.