Web Competitors 2009 [Archive]

TLuck234

07-01-2009, 00:58

I was noticing that the thread for this year has not been started yet, so I decided to post it.

This thread is to showcase your team's entree for the Website Award.

This thread is only to post your link and tell a little about the site. If you want to discuss a particular site, element, or rules for the award, post in another thread.

Post your website links!

RyanCesiel

07-01-2009, 15:58

AdamBots.com (http://adambots.com) - Probably going to put out a new design before the deadline.

Meredith Novak

07-01-2009, 16:02

http://baxterbombsquad.com

Work in progress, of course. We went live so we could show our supporters what we are up to during build season.

smurfgirl

07-01-2009, 16:05

http://uberbots.org/2008/index.php

This is still the 2008 site, so there's a lot of work that's going to be done before it's submitted. (Like that annoying video that repeats on the home-page, and well... a lot of stuff.)

Uberbots

07-01-2009, 16:59

waialua359

07-01-2009, 17:03

waialuarobotics.com.
One of the things we take pride in is updating it daily with pictures and a story every day of the build season posted by 8pm hawaii time. :D :D

smurfgirl

07-01-2009, 17:13

Well, hopefully its going to be changed anyway.

At the very least, the content is getting changed. I'm going to make sure of it. I don't have the necessary skills to change anything beyond that.

Anyway, I think side conversations like this are exactly what wasn't supposed to happen in this thread... :(

i_stainbrook

07-01-2009, 17:17

http://www.technotitans.org/

The Techno Titans will be participating! Currently working on improving website structure and usability.

TLuck234

08-01-2009, 00:15

http://rockets34.com

Design was revamped and is currently being updated for this year's season

Sunbun

08-01-2009, 00:31

http://torbots.com

It's a work in progress.

Kitmor

08-01-2009, 01:16

http://www.team847.com/

PHRED will be entering for the first time in a while. We have a completely redesigned site from the bottom up.

synth3tk

09-01-2009, 01:43

http://www.team964.com

After not having any complete sites for the last two years, I decided to make one to submit. It's basically done now. Took roughly two months to build.

jeetshah

09-01-2009, 03:22

umm team 115 last yr website champions we are also changing our website mvrt.com

synth3tk

09-01-2009, 03:34

The site appears to be down, I'm assuming you're still working on it? If so, it's probably a bit misleading to post it prematurely. If not, then you may want to check your DNS settings or something.

jeremiah.pegues

09-01-2009, 11:08

http://gwestrobotics.com/
Team 354. I've been working on it since November, and it seems that I still can't get a better background then the cheezy pirate ship from Virginia.

But let me know whats good.

synth3tk

09-01-2009, 12:46

Make one up that matches the colors/theme of your team, maybe put the FIRST logo in the background.
1600x2000 pixels

Cow Bell Solo

09-01-2009, 12:51

http://www.whitebearlakerobotics.com
Always making it better. Have made it very easy now to update pages from learning a new language this summer. Third design I've made of our website in the past 2 years.

mahmosh

09-01-2009, 20:07

http://www.tamra-afr.tk
Team 1946# Website ...
http://www.afr.297m.com/includes/FCKeditor/upload/image/mishka46.png

ZInventor

12-01-2009, 15:05

http://www.riverdalerobotics.com

here's the 2915 site... it's still a work in progress tho... some of the pages don't exist yet, or are malfuncitoning, but should be fixed soon...

the site uses one HTML wrapper, and the rest is generated by a home made php parsing script

i started a thread to get feedback, and have gotten some great help, but could allways do with more.

thanks everyone

-Z

fishgurl

12-01-2009, 16:01

team686lhs.org
In 2007, we got the 'Website Exelence Award.' Now our site is acting up and stuff. Good luck to all thoes teams trying!

sayso_411

18-01-2009, 21:48

http://www.sparky384.com

Still working on new things and pages

Akash Rastogi

18-01-2009, 22:40

RyanCesiel

19-01-2009, 20:23

Maaan, after seeing all these sites...I'm disapointed in ours. =(

It doesn't look fancy or have cool graphics but the back end administrative tools are friggin amazing. We've designed a admin content panel that allows anyone to edit the site just like how posts on chief delphi are written. The back end stuff is awesome but I guess I want some tips and advice about the rest of it. Advice is really appreciated.

www.mortteam11.org

yes i know it takes a while to redirect to our server....
That's great you developed a great admin panel, but, you need to think of the judges. Are they looking at your admin panel or your site?

One thing I would recommend to improve the design would be to decrease the font sizes. The body/paragraph and navigation text would be great at 12px.

I could probably make you a new design if you want, and you guys could code it.

TotalChaos

19-01-2009, 20:42

Freebird Robotics: www.polytechfusion.com (http://www.polytechfusion.com)

The site is always a work in progress :p

It was designed to be simple, useful, and load fast. Comments, suggestions (especially tutorial ideas) and critiques are always appreciated!

- Austin

Akash Rastogi

19-01-2009, 23:07

That's great you developed a great admin panel, but, you need to think of the judges. Are they looking at your admin panel or your site?

One thing I would recommend to improve the design would be to decrease the font sizes. The body/paragraph and navigation text would be great at 12px.

I could probably make you a new design if you want, and you guys could code it.

Yes I know that they're not looking at the admin panel, hence me asking for design help.

I'm not sure how I'd feel about using someone else' design as it wouldn't feel right for me to do that without putting on the site "Designed by ...". You have an IM I could reach you at? I'd be up for seeing some cool designs to incorporate into the website, but I wouldn't like to overhaul the layout or something. Add-ons would be great.

edit: nvm got your IM.

ROFLcopter

19-01-2009, 23:20

Oregon RoboHawks (http://www.oregonrobohawks.com/)

I basicly built our site by myself, only using what MySpace profile and forum posting code skill I had. I was up to my neck in work. Design and graphics are NOT my strong point. The nearest professional help for me is 50 miles away.

Let me know what you guys think. I do change it when I can.

coolfilmaker

19-01-2009, 23:31

wickedwobotics.org (http://wickedwobotics.org)

Akash Rastogi

19-01-2009, 23:34

teampronto

19-01-2009, 23:34

Hey ROFLcopter, make a thread for your site and I'll critique it;)

ROFLcopter

19-01-2009, 23:40

Hey ROFLcopter, make a thread for your site and I'll critique it;)
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=804195#post804195

flyingcrayons

22-01-2009, 19:21

http://www.mercury1089.com/main/#news/news.php

there's still much to be changed, like the flash banner at the top, and some other stuff that needs to be added...

this is pretty much last year's NJ regional winning site, but it has some updates to it, and more work will be done... however, this is probably going to be the layout

synth3tk

22-01-2009, 19:54

I remember your site! I loved it, and still do. Good job. I like how each navigational link only updates the content area, not reloading the whole page, yet there's a distinct URL for each page. To me, that's just magic. Pure magic.

Awesome layout, nice Flash header. Keep up the good work! :)

mahmosh

22-01-2009, 20:12

team 1946
http://www.tamra-afr.tk

scottmacdonald

08-02-2009, 14:52

http://robotics.crescentschool.org/

Still a work in progress

(due in 5 days) :ahh:

billyea

08-02-2009, 22:52

http://trobotics.ca

Still a work in progress, but progressing very fast.

robodude03

08-02-2009, 23:26

Teams,

All of your sites look great! I just wanted to post our site for others to look at as well. Enjoy!

www.team399.org

railerobotics

08-02-2009, 23:33

Please check out team 935's website. We try to maintain all year long. www.team935.com

Azure Kite

10-02-2009, 03:27

http://www.hbaroboticsclub.com

Main site in general is finished, currently working on finishing content and replacing filler information with actual information.

Vpr99

11-02-2009, 09:27

http://www.alpinerobotics.com

Alpine Robotics will be competing.

rdlevy1215

11-02-2009, 09:41

www.team1676.com -- All New for the 2009 season. Rebuilt from the ground up! Backbone of WordPress with our own (student designed and coded) theme!

Jared Russell

11-02-2009, 09:52

Miss Daisy just got a fresh facelift...

www.team341.com

synth3tk

11-02-2009, 12:42

Miss Daisy just got a fresh facelift...

www.team341.com
Let me know when the newsletter.php is working. I'd love to sign-up! :)

swalker92

11-02-2009, 15:30

http://bixbyrobotics.org
http://bixbyrobotics.com
http://team2424.com

all student made!

brentmcjunkin

11-02-2009, 16:24

343's website metalinmotion.com

DiscoDancer

11-02-2009, 16:40

New theme for the new year - http://www.2009.discobots.org

rsegrest

11-02-2009, 16:40

Student designed and maintained...

www.pantherbots.net

:D

Jim_1137

11-02-2009, 22:03

http://moodle.mathews.k12.va.us/robotics/index.html

Rocket Sauce website! Completely Designed and maintained by two students.
Come check it out. Neat little flash animation

Dubdub

11-02-2009, 22:10

http://naskco-robotics.org/

This our website that we have created this year. Team 2594. This was a big accomplishment for us due to the fact that we had students terminated for certain reasons and that left us with no one with any experience to work on the website. Me and a friend took on the task and it turned out pretty good we think for two people that have no idea what they were doing four weeks ago...
Depending on when you look at the website, you may or may not see an intro video in the begining, we have been having problems with it coming up and ultimately don't have any idea if it will even end up on the site at all.

brianc217

11-02-2009, 22:13

http://walpolerobotics.org

Akash Rastogi

11-02-2009, 22:36

www.team1676.com -- All New for the 2009 season. Rebuilt from the ground up! Backbone of WordPress with our own (student designed and coded) theme!

Nice looking site. Glad you kept all the content of the old site. Awesome stuff..especially the little mention of us in the 08 chairman's essay:D

Karibou

12-02-2009, 09:37

http://gpgearheads.org/
Student made, maintained, and written.

wendymom

12-02-2009, 10:06

www.explodingbacon.com

risipc

12-02-2009, 12:24

www.battlefieldrobotics.org (http://www.battlefieldrobotics.org)

Hey Everyone,

ILITE Robotics (may remember us as The Robocats) Team 1885 would like to present our new site. Our site was made 100% by our Web Programming Team, and it is our goal to keep all information on it as up-to-date as possible year round. Please take a moment to go through it, as it is among cutting edge web technology. Our site is powered via Microsoft SharePoint technology which uses a combination of ASP.net, Javascript, XML, XLS, and XHTML. We feel it would be useful for everyone to familiarize themselves with the functionality and usability that it offers.

Please offer any thoughts and input, we are very anxious to see how our site appeals to other teams / users.

synth3tk

12-02-2009, 17:28

risipc, is the site supposed to use the IP address with the domain just as a forwarder, or is something not setup correctly in your DNS?

Wetzel

12-02-2009, 18:08

Website Award entries must be submitted by February 12, 2009 11:59:59 PM EST.

Websites are being submitted at the last minute, I'm watching the websites entered for evaluation at DC increase as the day goes on, with slightly less than 6 hours to go until they are due. You can't win if you don't submit!

Wetzel

Malice

12-02-2009, 22:30

http://team781.com/visitor/images/goodies2.jpg

http://team781.com/

We look forward to seeing our competitors at the Waterloo and Greater Toronto Regionals! (:

robocatswebcrew

12-02-2009, 22:31

www.robocats.org We are proud to be student made and maintained. We also have an email, robocatswebcrew@gmail.com :D

nzamorski

13-02-2009, 00:01

Its finished! Check out the new C.O.R.E. Team 2062 website at www.core2062.com

risipc

13-02-2009, 11:15

"risipc, is the site supposed to use the IP address with the domain just as a forwarder, or is something not setup correctly in your DNS?"

synth3tk,

Yes, our new site is just an IP address rather than domain name. Our current site is hosted on a different server than the one that we have our domain name "Battlefield Robotics" on and to retain as much consistency with the community as possible, we left our domain name the same and foward traffic to our new site. Hopefully in the future that will change, but for now it is just an IP address.

galewind

13-02-2009, 11:41

Team 1089's new facelift just went live two days ago:

www.mercury1089.com

teampronto

13-02-2009, 12:54

http://teampronto.com

DONE. And DONE EARLY.

ionave

13-02-2009, 18:58

Hahaha... Here is our website:

students.imsa.edu/org/robotics

Let's just say that we worked *REALLLLLY* Hard on the site =P

:yikes:

Hehe... Not really. We were able to put it together in 4 days. We completely revamped it, but we made it simple and sweet.

dani190

13-02-2009, 20:09

http://ecirobotics.com

wedellm

13-02-2009, 20:27

Eagle Corps Robotics Team1158's webpage is now posted. Go to www.eaglecorps.ws

Gary.C

13-02-2009, 23:56

Can you still add info to your site even after submission? Will it still count?

dani190

13-02-2009, 23:59

Can you still add info to your site even after submission? Will it still count?

dont think so, i think after the cut off time, they go take screenshots... If not before when you submit...

waialua359

14-02-2009, 00:23

As stated earlier in this thread, changing your website after the deadline is a risk your team takes if judges happen to start evaluating your site.

Our team updates even after the deadline as we are still in build season and we post a summary daily of our progress.
In addition, we have the regional events that we are attending posted, and we write a summary of our team's experiences after each one.:D

FRC1672

14-02-2009, 11:27

www.team1672.com (http://team1672.com) It has been submitted but we still are updating information.

psrobichaud

15-02-2009, 00:05

Team 2472 - The Centurions
http://www.team2472.com
Feel free to post on our guest forum!

dqmot17

15-02-2009, 14:37

www.247dabears.com
you can guess our number and team name :)

RyanCesiel

16-02-2009, 16:27

AdamBots.com (http://adambots.com)

Just completed redesigning it last week!

FRC1710

16-02-2009, 23:22

This is team 1710's new website

http://www.ravonics.net

Let us know what you think by posting here...

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=73878

FRC2338webteam

18-02-2009, 16:16

Check out the 2009 Gear It Forward website.

http://oswegofirst.org

Team 2338 is participating in the Midwest Regional and Wisconsin Regional.

GX67

18-02-2009, 19:48

http://www.team2554.org/

Site is in our team colors, with a basic template up for each page to cut down on having to edit each individual page. (Still happens, though. I had to change about 20 pages worth of code over a period of 3 days to get it up to date in time for the deadline.) Hopefully the Team website group can help me get everything fixed for next year's competition, once this year's is over.

XD_bring_it

21-02-2009, 00:36

someone else tried to post this link but it wasn't "clickable" so here it is:

http://www.mvrt.com/2008/clear.php

unfortunately it wasn't updated much as our school suffered a flu epidemic (around a quarter of the school was sick :( which meant that about half the team including the webmaster was in bed in the last weeks of build)

user0

21-02-2009, 01:28

Almost done. A few more details to nail down and manage. but it's done enough for others to view and comment.

http://boilerinvasion.org

programmr

21-02-2009, 09:45

Check it out!

www.robowizards.com

What do you think?

Koko Ed

21-02-2009, 09:46

http://www.x-cats.org

RyanCesiel

21-02-2009, 11:48

Check it out!

www.robowizards.com

What do you think?
Definitely one of the better sites I've seen. You may want to consider increasing the content font size because 11px has always seemed to small to me for that.

programmr

21-02-2009, 12:37

ah, thank you, i really like your website, nice layout and everything.. good luck during competition.

rdlevy1215

21-02-2009, 14:41

any feedback on team1676.com would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

R.C.

21-02-2009, 15:10

team1323.com for us.

rdlevy1215

21-02-2009, 21:50

team1323.com for us.

I like it, but the background of your logos is a little distracting to the eye, maybe put one in a corner or in the header and you'd be set!

Good Luck at your regionals!

natalie604

21-02-2009, 22:06

www.604robotics.com (http://www.604robotics.com/)
also forwards from www.lelandrobotics.com

KF987

22-02-2009, 03:30

www.team987.com

Finally have a decent website :)

-Keaton

KevinReid

22-02-2009, 09:21

BeaverwörX website: http://www.lourdeschs.com/crusader/

frank.pendzich

24-02-2009, 15:35

http://www.wies-hs.eu.dodea.edu/Club/RoboWarriors/HTML/robomain.html

We're a rookie team from Wiesbaden, Germany looking for advice about our website and robot. Please take some time to visit our Blog.

Thanks

brianc217

24-02-2009, 22:47

http://www.walpolerobotics.org

alectronic

25-02-2009, 20:52

The Titan Robotics Club has been trying out the drupal framework for our site. We made our own themes, but it is based off their backend code.

www.titanrobotics.net

Feedback appreciated! (web@titanrobotics.net) Good luck to all teams!