Team 3175's Website

[MathMaven]

http://www.knightvision3175.com/

We wrote the entire website by hand with PHP (we'll move to WordPress for next year's website). The website is compliant with the W3C's XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1 guidelines and displays properly in the latest versions of the major modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE9).

What do you think?

[perlgerl]

Great work! A simple clean style, easy navigation, loads fast and interesting content.

Why do you want to move to WordPress? Content management systems like WordPress and Joomla are great if you want non-coders to write content for the website using a WYSIWYG editor (http://ckeditor.com/). But they cost you time to learn the file structure so you can customize the navigation, style and specialized content. The add-ins frequently increase page-load time unreasonably.

I'd recommend you continue hand coding PHP until the website grows so large that you really need a content management system.

P.S. I found the secret message. Good programmers always read the source code!

[mdiradoorian]

Great work so far.

Just a thought I would add history of your team. I would add all of your robots ever built including how you built it, what problems you had and also the technical specs. What I mean as technical specifics is to include the how each major component is powered.

For reference browse through our website www.team696.org (http://www.team696.org)

[johnmaguire2013]

Great work! A simple clean style, easy navigation, loads fast and interesting content.

Why do you want to move to WordPress? Content management systems like WordPress and Joomla are great if you want non-coders to write content for the website using a WYSIWYG editor (http://ckeditor.com/). But they cost you time to learn the file structure so you can customize the navigation, style and specialized content. The add-ins frequently increase page-load time unreasonably.

I'd recommend you continue hand coding PHP until the website grows so large that you really need a content management system.

P.S. I found the secret message. Good programmers always read the source code!

If you wait too long to switch to a CMS, it'll be a major pain doing so. :)

[MathMaven]

Just a thought I would add history of your team.
We sort of have that (http://www.knightvision3175.com/FRC/archives/).

I would add all of your robots ever built including how you built it, what problems you had and also the technical specs. What I mean as technical specifics is to include the how each major component is powered.

We'd have included that if we had that information. Unfortunately, we scrapped our previous robots for their parts and don't have CAD models of them. We'll do that for this year's robot.

[MathMaven]

Why do you want to move to WordPress? Content management systems like WordPress and Joomla are great if you want non-coders to write content for the website using a WYSIWYG editor (http://ckeditor.com/). [emphasis mine]
Exactly. Think about how much easier it would be to edit our member's pages (http://knightvision3175.com/aboutUs/members.php) if they could do it themselves. Editing and uploading a huge PHP file over and over again is a pain. Besides, since only two members on my team know how to do this stuff, we have to track down every member for the respective info, so we are still (http://knightvision3175.com/aboutUs/members_info.php?id=1) missing (http://knightvision3175.com/aboutUs/members_info.php?id=3) some (http://knightvision3175.com/aboutUs/members_info.php?id=5) info (http://knightvision3175.com/aboutUs/members_info.php?id=17).
But they [content-management systems] cost you time to learn the file structure so you can customize the navigation, style and specialized content.
http://ragefac.es/faces/cc91e8741c0c596b8b15cb2fc544a488.png
The add-ins frequently increase page-load time unreasonably.
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.
P.S. I found the secret message. Good programmers always read the source code!
Glad you found it. I'm proud of that one.

[digitxp]

The add-ins frequently increase page-load time unreasonably.

I'd recommend you continue hand coding PHP until the website grows so large that you really need a content management system.

You can always make the page-load time a lot faster...using even more add-ins! :-D