Web Competitors 2007

[artdutra04]

Website Competitions 2007:
This seems to be a yearly tradition for me to start this thread... :p

As the end of 2006 draws ever closer, many teams are now begining to fire up Photoshop and Notepad, to commence work on their new team websites. The 2006 Web Competitors Thread (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40358) had many wonderful team websites - let's make this one even better. Use this thread to list your 2007 Team Websites.

Discussion Rules:

The guidelines are to limit discussion as this is a showcase thread more than anything. If you want to discuss an individual site or some design element, or FIRST's rules for the award (which as of this post aren't out), start a new thread.
See these links for website competitor discussions from 2006 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40358), 2005 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31866), and 2004 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23571).

Post your website links!

[psquared89]

Team 245 got an excellence award last year and will certainly be competing again this year.

http://adambots.com or http://adamsrobotics.com we own both

[GileanTheSage]

Oops. This is actually team 1816's 2007 website: The Green Machine (http://www.edinarobotics.com).
All of these dates make me confused. :rolleyes:

[SamC]

http://adambots.com or http://adamsrobotics.com we own both

This may seem off-topic and go against those rules, but why the need for 2 domains for the same organization?

[ThomasP]

http://www.blarglefish.com as always, new layout (again) this year, still working out minor bugs that have popped up with this new layout and adjusting small things but should be working perfectly after I get time to work on it during Thanksgiving break :).


This may seem off-topic and go against those rules, but why the need for 2 domains for the same organization?

Domains are relatively inexpensive and sometimes people mess up the words in a URL ;). Google actually owns a number of domains that point to Google.com like... Gogole.com, gooogle.com, etc

[RoboMadi]

Team 612 (http://www.chantillyrobotics.com) also won the excellence award last year.

For 2007, web team is coming up with a whole new concept. Here a preview (http://www.chantillyrobotics.com/intro.html) ; it connects back to the 2006 website (testing mode), so no worries..... ;)

Imad

[(Click_Here)]

Team 578's 2007 Website

http://www.fairportfirst.com

Our 2007 website is the same domain name the design has been changed but the site is only 25% complete

[fimmel]

im currently in the middle of revamping the green team 885's website for the new season (better navigation, calendars, etc)
the adderss is www.thegreenteam885.org (http://www.thegreenteam885.org) check it out

[Joe J.]

Lightning Robotics (www.lightningrobotics.com) There are some new features in the works.

[DotCom]

The Fembots are still making minor changes to their site, but here's the link anyway!

http://www.sfrobotics.com

[themagic8ball]

Team 537 is getting a full redesign this year. The whole site is being converted to a PHP/MySQL backend as well as a new frontend design.

Check out our progress @ http://www.team537.com

[neilsonster]

Team 772's website:

http://www.sabrerobotics.com

The site is currently being redesigned from what I understand, though I don't have direct contact with the students working on it. It hasn't really been updated since I was one of the two people in charge of it, so hopefully they come up with some good stuff!

[Jonathan Norris]

I'll post this on behalf of our web team, we have finished re-designing our website, and are currently coding it all up. The designers did an amazing job with it and hopefully it will function as good as it looks. Here is the design (http://robotics.crescentschool.org/final.jpg), and here (http://robotics.crescentschool.org/) is our temporary page with some flash video i have been playing with. I'll bump it again when we have it finished.

[SamC]

Just as a little plug for our new FIRST Web Network (http://fwn.thegreenteam885.org), don't forget to add your site so that people can easily see who is competing in the web site category without having to read through the whole thread. (Not trying to replace this thread, just trying to make looking for a team's site easier.)

[astephen68]

I think our website looked okay. www.mustangrobotics.ca. Does anybody have any advice on improving this website to be better?

[Night]

Team 2052.

Spent only a little over 2 hours designing, slicing, and coding this one. Still under construction, have to add color and content.

Temporary location: http://www.rayiscool.com/ihs

[Nizz]

Team #2231 - OnyxTronix (Shoham Highschool, Israel)

Currently the site is part English and part Hebrew, we hope to have the two languages available in the future.

http://www.onyxtronix.com

[Tottanka]

Thats the first time we build a webby...
www.frc-1947.com

[Fillionster]

Team 2200 Has Started there Webpage, It can be found at

1) http://mmrambotics.ca (http://mmrambotics.ca) <-The Site will be up tomorrow or so.
Or http://chatt.hdsb.ca/~1FillionDav <-The old Version

[SamC]

Team 330 will be competing this year. You can view it at http://www.team330.org the layout is finished, but the content is sill being added little-by-little. So if you see any problems with the layout, please do notify me.

[Tim Arnold]

Same as always for MARS 1523, http://www.marsbot.org

We do rolling updates throughout the year, using it as a continuous team resource so its not exactly like we submit a completely separate site. Quite a few new things since the 06 comp, such as a new theme and web 2.0 features.

[webmastermari]

www.pantherrobotics.com (http://www.pantherrobotics.com)

its not much...but...theres a lot of work to be done

if you guys see any flaws, like major flaws, besides spelling (im terrible at that ! lol) please tell me lol

enjoi :)

[Pavan Dave]

<Official Outdated> (http://robonauts.org)
<UnOfficial Current> (http://robonauts.teknobot.net)

Pavan.

[yodameister]

Here is our current website. It is still lacking a lot of content, but you get the general idea. More will be put in during the upcoming weeks. Let us know what you think.
Team 1726 (http://www.project1726.org)

[354.FIRST]

http://www.gwestrobotics.com/
:yikes:

[354.FIRST]

link ^^^

Visit our website.. just done, more design, than scripting....

but tell us what you think..



some of the links may also not work, as we don't have video editing software yet, and have to re-do some scripts for this year.

[Lucretius]

Team 1884's website: www.asl.org/robotics (http://www.asl.org/robotics/)

Of course, it's a work in progress; slowly but surely, we'll put up more content!

[themagic8ball]

We have started a FIRST Webmasters yahoo group!

Please join by sending a blank email to FIRSTWebmasters-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Thanks much!

[Barry Craig]

http://www.amorerobotics.com

I'm not the webmaster anymore, but most of version 1.0's layout has been carried over to 2.0.

PS. 1.0 looked horrible.

[WesleyC]

Team #1825's website: http://www.jchrobotics.com

We're (well, I am) still working on FIRST-izing our website for this year; BEST last year left it a bit BEST-specific. ;) Just need to update it to reflect FIRST's standards...

[Denman625]

2006 Denver Regional Best Website Award Winner Team Driven (www.teamdriven.us) is goin for another one ;-) 2nd year, I think we might have a chance, tell me what ya think :-)

[Compnerd]

FIRST Robotics team 1444. Will be competing for the first time! Great flash layout. Looking forward to the competition!

www.first1444.com

[Cjmovie]

Team 1293's website is now available: http://d5robotics.org/

Enjoy! Nice websites I see listed here, as well!

[Alex Minot]

check out http://www.team1676.com

[Nathan Nitsch]

There is some good looking competition out there this year. I just had a question. Is FIRST going to penalize for improper use (the background) of their logo?

As far as our website goes, we are still in mid-redesign. Well, Good Luck all.

[Koko Ed]

Click the sig. V

[jgannon]

http://www.team1743.org/

[travis48elite]

Here is Team 48's Website, it is usually updated everyday. For this year our webmaster has included robot teasers along with some interesting video. Hope you enjoy your visit on our site!:) http://www.delphielite.com/

[tfisher04]

Here's Team 422's website. Many changes since we last posted here in the website showcase a couple years ago looking for comments.

http://www.team422.com/

[b-rant]

uploaded today but we still need to fill in all the content http://www.teamfusion364.org/index.htm

[fireball3004]

I wouldn't call us competitive no... http://www.pettronics.org/index.php . teeam 2090

[dgonza36502]

Hi everyone,
we have just completed our site for this year,
http://www.cc.bia.edu/NASA/Team590/index.htm,
check it out if you like. hope you like it. Good luck to all!!!:yikes: :yikes: :) :)

[pentau]

Team 449

http://robot.mbhs.edu

[sarcasticmadnes]

team 115 Monta Vista Robotics Team

www.mvrt.com

[zim2411]

Team 1727

www.dulaneyrobotics.com

[akash155]

when are the web submissions due?

[ChrisR_522]

Tomorrow I believe, Thursday.

[pheadxdll]

Now their due today. :) Also I have a question. I didn't want to open an entire new thread for it:

Under the judging cretia on page 14 it lists "Do links open new, separate browser windows?"

Does this only apply to external content? I find it extremely annoying for webpages to open other links in new windows. Thanks!

[Guy Chriqui]

Team 4 decided to make a website this year and go for an award. So far this is what we have - www.team4element.com

[railerobotics]

Check out our team web site. We are attending the Kansas City Regional in 07.

www.team935.info

[fschutzman]

Heres our team web site:
http://www.whs.wjusd.k12.ca.us/FRC%20site/index.htm

[marc]

Team Kinematrix, #1392

http://www.durham.edu.on.ca/s_links/schools/jcrichardson/robotics/index.html

[Ryan Dognaux]

Team 1646 , Precision Guessworks website for 2007:

http://www.precisionguessworks.org/

[wolfj]

Is this just for the regional you guys (Team 47) are in? If so, sorry. But anyway, Team 1713 (for which I am the webmaster) has submitted www.1000islandsschools.org/FIRST/FIRST.htm for the Finger Lakes Regional Website Competition. This is our first year competing for the award, and I have to say my confidence level is going up and down like crazy. (Team 340, for example, has a fantastic website.)

While I'm here, what's the difference between the Website Award and the Website Awards for excellence? Is the latter like an "Honorable Mention" thing?

[Sagar Vyas]

Team 1503, Spartonics' 2007 Website: www.spartonics.org (http://www.spartonics.org)

[ZachKahn]

Team 1515's website was totally revamped. New layout, more galleries, and new features. Check it out at bhrobotics.com (http://bhrobotics.com) or mortorq.com (http://mortorq.com)

[Metalhugginman]

Team 343 - Metal In Motion can be found at: www.metalinmotion.com
Our web page is kept up-to-date with new information frequently posted. Please visit us. We are located in Seneca, SC.
Good luck to everyone this year.
:)

[rdlevy1215]

Here's Team 1676's site ... Best Website at the 2007 New Jersey Regional: http://www.team1676.com/

[Gigaman2003]

Team 1280 - The Raging Seabiscuits are back with our best site yet...
www.srvhsrobotics.org

[wsansewjs]

The new 2007 Team Resistance website has been launched!

http://www.teamresistance.org/

Check it out! :D

-Josh S.

[BRosser314]

Team 314 got an award at the Motoroal Midwest Regional for our website, this years is soo much better.

Megatron Oracles (www.314megatronoracles.com)

I love my old high school:D

[Robocat1]

Team 379, the robocats, also redid their website this year:

www.girardrobotics.com (http://www.girardrobotics.com)

some information is still be added, so keep checking back. We especially like the addition of our favorite robotics songs at the top! We love Cotton Eyed Joe

[Ctrl Alt Delete]

I revamped my team's website this year: bobcatrobotics.org (http://bobcatrobotics.org/)

I used Moo.fx for the dropdown stuff. I used magpie rss to get those videos that we have from google video. All of it was coded Notepad++ and all the graphics were made in Photoshop.

[RyanCesiel]

Is there a reason why about 90% of these links work anymore? I was hoping to get an idea what competition was like (Don't tell me to search Google, I'm only being sarcastic).

[Brian J. R.]

Well here is 1983's first real website....Our Website (www.ahsrobotics.us)....I am not webmaster till next year and I am not sure if it was submitted, but anywho there is our site.

[synth3tk]

Our web guy from last year left, and I really didn't like the way our site was anyway. I'm still working on our current site, but if you'd like to see how it's going: http://www.bedfordrobotics.org Very basic site using Joomla! CMS and phpBB for the forums. I've yet to integrate logins from both together, still waiting on a team name/logo.

[HighLife]

Are there any other teams out there using a wiki platform?

[synth3tk]

Highlife, I like what you guys did with your site. I was just checking it out today after reading this thread, and I must admit that after viewing a boatload of other teams who used MediaWiki or some alternative (and yes, lots of teams also use Wiki) I thought that this was just for the most basic of setups. Kudos, keep it up!

We use Joomla! Content Management System [http://www.joomla.org/] and I'm in the process of setting up a Wordpress for blogging, then somehow integrating those with phpBB from MySql to make one big happy site. I like keeping busy, as you can see!

[RyanCesiel]

Highlife, I like what you guys did with your site. I was just checking it out today after reading this thread, and I must admit that after viewing a boatload of other teams who used MediaWiki or some alternative (and yes, lots of teams also use Wiki) I thought that this was just for the most basic of setups. Kudos, keep it up!

We use Joomla! Content Management System [http://www.joomla.org/] and I'm in the process of setting up a Wordpress for blogging, then somehow integrating those with phpBB from MySql to make one big happy site. I like keeping busy, as you can see!
Check out this guy's tutorial, you could almost just use Wordpress for the whole website (it's a nice little mod for a CMS). Wordpress can do just about anything. It's also very easy to theme. Don't think Wordpress is just for bloggging, that's oh so wrong. Personally, I would recommend not having Joomla!, Wordpress and phpBB all in one.

Click Me for WP Hacks! (http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/wordpress-theme-hacks/) (Amazing Design)

Concerning phpBB, I would use phpBB3 if you're not. Their's many advantages like no spam and better .. everything pretty much.

[synth3tk]

Yah, I know there's much better ways of doing it. I'm just seeing what I can do. I've seen the sites you're describing using just Wordpress for everything. I might do that still...

[BornaE]

Here is Team 39's 2007 Website(Still in production)
www.hhsrobotics.org/
www.hhsrobotics.org/index3.php

[synth3tk]

Geez, I hate working on dialup. I'll check out your site later, it's hard downloading and upload stuff on a crappy 28.8K connection. Hopefully I'll have DSL by Saturday.

[synth3tk]

Ok, scrapping that whole project due to a barrier by my host, I'm just switching to Dragonfly. It's already got PHP and Coppermine built-in.

[RyanCesiel]

I would still recommend Wordpress (plenty of plugins for galleries like Coppermine). Good luck anyway though!

[wolfj]

Team 578's 2007 Website

http://www.fairportfirst.com

Our 2007 website is the same domain name the design has been changed but the site is only 25% complete

Yes! I absolutely adore Team 578's site! If there were two website awards at Rochester last year, you guys would have been right up there with 340!

As for Team 1713, the new site is up and running! Compared to last year's, its a lot... what's the word?... better. That's all I have to say. Here it is: http://www.1000islandsschools.org/FIRST/First.htm

[ShotgunNinja]

Yah, I know there's much better ways of doing it. I'm just seeing what I can do. I've seen the sites you're describing using just Wordpress for everything. I might do that still...

You seem pained to admit to that. Don't worry about it. WordPress is professionalistic, powerful, and easy to use and implement. Give it a shot. You may just like what you see.

[BrianBauman]

We're working out the bugs and obnoxiously large picture sizes but here is our site, renovated from last year's horror show.

Http://www.techhounds.com/

Notice the new midnight design, Alot lighter on the bright orange :P

Earlier we had problems because the extensions were capitalized from the camera when we were stuck calling it in lowercase :yikes: The flash menu is a little buggy but I am fixing it tomorrow hopefully :P

[Laaba 80]

Just to let people know this thread is for web competitors 2007. It is now 2008, so any info about your website should go on the 2008 competators thread.
Joey