New Website!

[cyanutopia]

Cinco Ranch Robotics has debuted its new website (still being updated though). Please take the time to review the site---give us feedback in the contact section (or in this forum) and suggest links (in the links section, duh ). The address is http://www.cincorobotics.com
Also, the site is a very complex flash site, so we recommend a pentium 3 500 MHz + system.
Timothy Hsu
Webmaster of www.cincorobotics.com
Team 624

[Jon Lawton]

Well, all that flash is impressive, but for me at least it is too too much. I can't navagate the site at all. I am on a PII 400 and it's really really choppy.

The flash is nice so the best advice I can give is to create a "Flash" and a "Non-Flash" version. Please keep in mind people who aren't on Athlon MP 1.2 Ghz x2 4GB DDR Windows XP boxen... some of us use P1 233 with 64 MB RAM and Linux. :)

[cyanutopia]

Yep, we're aware of the issue with the site on slow[er] computers, and we're working on a non-flash site that'll be uploaded next week (hopefully). In fact, when we were testing the interface, it literally killed my friend's PII 266...may that thing rest in peace.

[AndyTriboletti]

I went ahead and clicked on the IE 5.5 or above only with IE 5. bleh, flickering, and other nonsense, couldn't even get to see any pics of your 'bot.

I can only imagine what it'd look like with one of the 'alternative browsers'. Try to get a non-flashed site up, and it would be great. I'll try the site out with IE 5.5 when I get home (I'm at work now in the computer labs)

[Mike Soukup]

<rant>
If I can't view the the page on my old 233 with Netscape 4, or on my Solaris box at work (note, no Flash for Solaris) then I have no choice but to give it the lowest rating. Non-backwards compatable sites are evil. For those of you who are curious, I've also ranted to our webmaster about the IE 5 requirements for parts of our site.

Fancy flash & excellent graphics are not what make a site good, it's the content that people keep coming back for.
</rant>

I viewed the page on my new computer and it looks good. Let people view the page without Flash and you'll have an excellent site.

Mike

[cyanutopia]

Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that a version of the website that's geared toward slower connections and slower computer systems has been uploaded and is awaiting your visit :) So for all of you who couldn't view it before because it was running far too slow, give it another try if you like :)

[CaptainPlaid]

You still have a major problem with your site at least as far as I can get. On the main page whenever I mouse-over the low or high bandwidth button I get two IE script errors. I am running IE 5.5. It is on a PII 300 but come-on. Give us low power guys something to go with.

[cyanutopia]

I don't know what to tell ya, because I use IE 5.5 as well, and it seems to work fine here...no errors, and the mouseovers work fine. Anyone else get a similar problem when using IE 5.5? And what exactly does the script error say?

[Wetzel]

It runs jsut fine on my computer, but then again I have a fairly high power machine on a cable modem.
One thing I found anoying was that when I opened one of the new menu items, it poped under the ones already up.

It runs just fine on a:
Athlon XP 1700+
512 DDR
geforce 2 mx 400
IE 5.5
Win2K
cable modem

Oh, and the music is nice and my Logitch Z-560s THX speakers made the bass nice and punchy.

And tho those with the P II's, I know how you feel. I had a K6-2 300 until a month ago.