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Akash Rastogi
08-11-2009, 13:07
Post up updates as you go along, wish for feedback, give suggestions to others. Share your team website here!
2009 Championship Winner - http://www.simbotics.org/
MORT will finally redo the plain red and white website and turn it into a representation of our team with the help of a MORT alum who we're very proud of.
http://phillipjroth.com/ Please check out his stuff and post your own!
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current mess- www.mortteam11.org
Team 1716's all new website
http://www.frc1716.org/
It is no where near to being done right now, and missing most of the contact, but the link is above!
www.gpgearheads.org
This is rather out-of-date, actually. It's getting a huge revamp for the 2010 season, which has already started. We're going to start moving over and changing our content as soon as I get a little more familiar with Drupal, which is what we're switching to.
Team 1323's Site (http://team1323.com)
-RC
BrendanB
09-11-2009, 23:00
2009 GSR website winner-
http://www.mechanicalmayhem.org/
The photos and team news are a little out of date, like 7 months out of date, but at recent meetings we have discussed updates.
brendan
Rion Atkinson
09-11-2009, 23:00
RC... That website just isn't even fair..
Akash Rastogi
09-11-2009, 23:17
RC... That website just isn't even fair..
1323's will also be getting a slight face-lift for 2010. We need to fix up the colors and whatnot. Most people have suggested that the black and blue is a bit harsh on the eyes. Feedback please? Since neither of us is a web designer we just went with what looked decent so far.
(Yes we even work together on the site) lol
Also, if we could get some feedback on the MORT site ideas I'd really really appreciate it. - http://rothystyle.carbonmade.com/projects/11933
BrendanB
09-11-2009, 23:27
Akash,
The blue and black are a little harsh. I would suggest taking the black out of some areas and replace it with either white or gray (different shades that are similar to black) might be nicer on the eyes but still stick with dark and blue.
my thoughts
brendan
Rion Atkinson
10-11-2009, 00:16
Im with Brendan on that Akash. The drop down menus and maybe the menu bar its self could do with a lighter shade. The white on black I don't actually see a problem with though. And maybe take the blue tent off the picture at the top?
-Rion
On 1323's site, i'm not a fan of the 9 different sub-sites with no clear way to navigate between them. Once you pick a sub-site however, the content is great. I agree on the black and blue though. Might be easier to read in a different color.
mathwiz20
10-11-2009, 00:34
http://www.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/robotics/opening.html
long url, i know. We might buy a domain name this coming year. I have it memorized though! =P
My team's site is a bit dark too, isn't it?
Eugene Fang
10-11-2009, 00:40
My team's site is a bit dark too, isn't it?
I think it's fine. It's clear and readable.
I think it's fine. It's clear and readable.Agreed. Except for the right vertical menu, such as on this (http://www.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/robotics/newweb/webpages/teamhistory.html)page, it is very readable and visually appealing.
HashemReza
10-11-2009, 01:32
We've re-vamped...again...
Thankfully, this year is nowhere close to the hell that last year was.
http://www.team1538.com
Wow, 1323, that is one awesome site :)
ndsj.org/robotics (http://www.ndsj.org/robotics)
We have yet to update this site with new members and sponsors, as well as fix the many grammatical mistakes from last year that we never bothered to fix after SVR...
BrendanB
10-11-2009, 09:48
http://www.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/robotics/opening.html memorized though! =P
My team's site is a bit dark too, isn't it?
This is what we mentioned earlier. Switching up shades and adding in white. It still stays with your teams colors, but different sections are easier to distinguish and nice on the eyes. So you have what fomerlyfamous and i mentioned earlier. :)
Akash Rastogi
10-11-2009, 19:31
Temporary site is being published on a different server for now:
http://mort.phillipjroth.com/
Let me know what you think as it goes! Thanks.
Akash your site's looking good but the bottom half either isn't loading or not there yet. I don't know which one? But the top half I see looks really good.
The DiscoBots have won the Lone Star Regional Website award two years in a row.
Our team keeps the award winning site in mint condition to help other teams learn about our progress. We don't work on our 2010 website design until FIRST season starts (we like to play by the rules)!
http://2009.discobots.org
http://2008.discobots.org
Team 2502 is starting to build its website (currently, just me). I'm just setting up the site structure and whatnot. "Friedman Robotics" has not been decided and will probably change. I'll holler again when it's actually done... :)
www.team2502.com
Also, we own www.teamrobot.org. That was our last year's site, but it's so lacking in design that I didn't want to really share it... :)
Keehun
Andrew Schreiber
11-11-2009, 15:05
Temporary site is being published on a different server for now:
http://mort.phillipjroth.com/
Let me know what you think as it goes! Thanks.
Im no professional designer but I don't like the sheer amount of vertical space taken up by those pictures. If they are unique to the media page that would be fine but if they are going to be on all the pages it could be a real problem for those of us who tend to use smaller windows while browsing. I do like the overall feel though.
dtengineering
11-11-2009, 21:21
Teams in the Pacific Northwest will be delighted to hear that Billy E., the designer of www.trobotics.ca, which has won the MS Seattle Regional best website award the past two years, has graduated.
But he has left instructions on how to maintain the site...
Jason
HashemReza
12-11-2009, 01:08
Akash, you might consider shifting those pictures to the sides of the content, or just removing them. Well...to be honest, actually, with content on that page they may distract less than they do now. So i'll hold judgement until some content is shown beneath.
So, i posted my link before, but haven't gotten anything :P
so, AGAIN!
http://team1538.com
We took everyone's problems with the left hand nav and did away with them...by centering the navigation, then playing with a sub menu. I think it's getting pretty close, just needs some more page content. Specifically photos!
Anything?
LWakefield
12-11-2009, 12:03
Our new site is simple.
http://first.ncresa.org
:)
Teams in the Pacific Northwest will be delighted to hear that Billy E., the designer of www.trobotics.ca (http://www.trobotics.ca), which has won the MS Seattle Regional best website award the past two years, has graduated.
But he has left instructions on how to maintain the site...
Jason
Nice site. I like the interface and the navigation is Innovative but I'm not a fan of flash. Also when you click on on of the updates on the home page it takes a while to get back to the home. You might want to add a back to home button, so it's easier. But other than that you have good colors, and a clean site. Job well done.
Nice site. I like the interface and the navigation is Innovative but I'm not a fan of flash. Also when you click on on of the updates on the home page it takes a while to get back to the home. You might want to add a back to home button, so it's easier. But other than that you have good colors, and a clean site. Job well done.
This site bugs me, because of the non-conventional approach to designing it. But my crazy opinion. But if you like it, then its great! plus it looks nice too.
LWakefield, i dont know if its just an unspoken rule, but never say welcome and front page. and never do it in the same sentence ;) The title should have your team number in it, because when i go to bookmark it, it will be so vague. But otherwise lookin good!
our site is www.247dabears.com (http://www.247dabears.com). we plan to add html validation (its an asp.net app.... thats going to be amazing if we can pull it off) and a better theme later in the year.
Andrew Schreiber
13-11-2009, 16:30
Teams in the Pacific Northwest will be delighted to hear that Billy E., the designer of www.trobotics.ca, which has won the MS Seattle Regional best website award the past two years, has graduated.
But he has left instructions on how to maintain the site...
Jason
I have a rant about Flash and I beg that people NOT use it for websites. It breaks the standard method of navigating and it requires closed source, proprietary technology to edit it. Flash is great for streaming videos but for designing your main website should probably be avoided. I saw nothing there that a reasonably competent person couldn't do using Javascript and DOM Manipulation.
Jason, I apologize for appearing to pick on your team's site. It does look nice and the content is top notch. Ignoring the fact that it is in Flash I would definitely say this website is wonderful.
I probably won't have anything much to do with it this year, since I'm in college this year, but I'll still throw my team's site into the mix:
http://d5robotics.org/
Still running the CMS I developed, so at least I'll leave a legacy :)
I have a rant about Flash and I beg that people NOT use it for websites. It breaks the standard method of navigating and it requires closed source, proprietary technology to edit it. Flash is great for streaming videos but for designing your main website should probably be avoided. I saw nothing there that a reasonably competent person couldn't do using Javascript and DOM Manipulation.
Jason, I apologize for appearing to pick on your team's site. It does look nice and the content is top notch. Ignoring the fact that it is in Flash I would definitely say this website is wonderful.
Although i have graduated. I still like to see how things are going.
I'd just like to take a moment to explain my choices:
There's a wonderful backend to the site that you should see someday, which skirts past the expensive Flash editor itself. It's an entire CMS actually. Also the standard navigation methods hold up fine under most modern browsers, again due to the wonderful SWFAddress that implements custom URL and back-button support for Flash.
I do like to consider myself reasonably competent though. I have Javascript, PHP and DOM experience, enough to have done this site in another way (Dojo?) but... why? What is SO wrong about Flash?
I hear a lot about hating Flash, and I even addressed issues that people have about Flash (broken navigation, slow loading, poor layout, difficulty in editing) to the point where many visitors to the site say they had expected a Flash site to be much worse, and were pleasantly surprised. I had faith that I had resolved many of the problems, but I hear people still chanting those same issues as if I hadn't. It almost seems like blind hate. Or perhaps it is a hate for proprietary technology, an opinion I do not subscribe to.
My methodology may frustrate other developers who like standards, but I used Flash because it works, and a solution that works and meets the needs of my team (and ends up winning awards!) is a perfectly fine solution to me. If the solution had required standard HTML, I would've met that need as well.
However, with new emerging platforms like HTML 5 and integrated video, I do hope it will be replaced eventually. Who knows what my team can come up with? I have faith!
Andrew Schreiber
18-11-2009, 18:26
Although i have graduated. I still like to see how things are going.
I'd just like to take a moment to explain my choices:
There's a wonderful backend to the site that you should see someday, which skirts past the expensive Flash editor itself. It's an entire CMS actually. Also the standard navigation methods hold up fine under most modern browsers, again due to the wonderful SWFAddress that implements custom URL and back-button support for Flash.
I do like to consider myself reasonably competent though. I have Javascript, PHP and DOM experience, enough to have done this site in another way (Dojo?) but... why? What is SO wrong about Flash?
I hear a lot about hating Flash, and I even addressed issues that people have about Flash (broken navigation, slow loading, poor layout, difficulty in editing) to the point where many visitors to the site say they had expected a Flash site to be much worse, and were pleasantly surprised. I had faith that I had resolved many of the problems, but I hear people still chanting those same issues as if I hadn't. It almost seems like blind hate. Or perhaps it is a hate for proprietary technology, an opinion I do not subscribe to.
My methodology may frustrate other developers who like standards, but I used Flash because it works, and a solution that works and meets the needs of my team (and ends up winning awards!) is a perfectly fine solution to me. If the solution had required standard HTML, I would've met that need as well.
However, with new emerging platforms like HTML 5 and integrated video, I do hope it will be replaced eventually. Who knows what my team can come up with? I have faith!
First off, thank you for replying. Second, I was by no means saying you were incompetent because you used Flash, merely remarking that now, with the advent of AJAX and DOM manipulation it is possible to do nearly 100% of the things that Flash does.
You particular site did not fall prey to many of the the problems that Flash causes but those problems are still prevalent in others. I will admit I was quite surprised that not only was the site pleasant enough to use it had top notch content I'll say it again, TOP Notch Content, this is the primary failing of Flash based sites in my opinion, too often people spend a lot of time making them pretty and, for want of a better term, flashy but neglect the content.
Don't let my criticisms of your choice of a solution take away from the awards, you and your team have put a lot of work into that site, it shows. If all Flash based sites had the quality yours does perhaps my only real gripe with Flash would be that Adobe doesn't know how to write a plugin for OS X that doesn't use 50+% of my cpu.
What about public computers that don't have flash or not the correct version installed? Having it as your WHOLE site is a little risky, as computers are getting weaker and weaker (netbooks) and some can't handle flash well. But like andrew said, i like your site, just i dont like the way its delivered
brianc217
20-11-2009, 17:42
Here's our site from last year. We plan to revamp it to some extent.
http://www.walpolerobotics.org
I know there are some compatibility issues but any advice would be appreciated.
Here's our site from last year. We plan to revamp it to some extent.
http://www.walpolerobotics.org
I know there are some compatibility issues but any advice would be appreciated.
At the top of your site your main body comment is showing on the page. Just a quick heads up.
What about public computers that don't have flash or not the correct version installed? Having it as your WHOLE site is a little risky, as computers are getting weaker and weaker (netbooks) and some can't handle flash well. But like andrew said, i like your site, just i dont like the way its delivered
The install base of Flash is not insignificant, and was large enough to warrant taking the risk. In case Flash is not available, the site will offer a mobile version that contains the same content minus videos and high bandwidth media. Performance testing (mainly looking up the site on a junk computer) has yielded positive results with tolerable performance overhead.
Remember that optimizing performance and accessibility was one of the main goals. If I couldn't do that, I would never have touched Flash.
brianc217
22-11-2009, 18:48
At the top of your site your main body comment is showing on the page. Just a quick heads up.
Are you running firefox?
Akash Rastogi
22-11-2009, 18:52
Are you running firefox?
Same here. on ff
"<!-------- MainBody --> "
Chris is me
22-11-2009, 19:46
Are you running firefox?
As Firefox is the most standards compliant browser out there, your code should be optimized to work in it. :)
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" --><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
<!-------- MainBody -->
Your HTML code appears to have the comment written with the characters for less than and greater than rather than the actual < and > symbols, hence why it displays on the page. The comments above are properly formatted. Perhaps your CMS is automatically converting said symbols?
My methodology may frustrate other developers who like standards, but I used Flash because it works, and a solution that works and meets the needs of my team (and ends up winning awards!) is a perfectly fine solution to me. If the solution had required standard HTML, I would've met that need as well.
However, with new emerging platforms like HTML 5 and integrated video, I do hope it will be replaced eventually. Who knows what my team can come up with? I have faith!
Billy, let me start off by saying that I have had Flash experience since 12 years of age and that you're way past calling yourself just "competent." Even though I have Flash experience, it would have taken we a long time to develop what you have developed there.
As soon as I saw the site, I immediately thought about HTML5 and CSS3. With all that new web standards will offer for us, I think that whole site can be done with just HTML5 and CSS3 for markup/style. However, that's a whole another time to worry about.
As much as I hate incompetent flash websites, sometimes, sites like yours are a real treat to come across sometimes. Keep up the AWESOME work. Just keep in mind that everything has its context and everything has its reasons. Some sites are meant to be implemented through standards and others not so much. Perhaps robotics site in flash wasn't the best idea, but as it stands, I don't think it's a problem that you did it in flash.
Keehun
Team 2502
hyperdude
25-11-2009, 21:11
Team 2503 -
http://brainerd-robotics.org
psrobichaud
29-11-2009, 18:34
Team 2472's all-new Joomla-powered website:
http://www.team2472.com
TLuck234
01-12-2009, 11:47
http://test.rockets34.com
The new website is currently in progress, but here is a one page view of what it will look like. Will post when more progress is made. Good luck to all teams this year.
teampronto
03-12-2009, 14:10
http://teampronto.com
A few updates since last year. Going to be adding a whole lot more content in the next weeks.;)
Team 1640 Sab-bot-age, Downingtown Area Robotics
team1640.com (http://wiki.team1640.com)
All of the pages from prior year robots are there, and we've put the structure in for the 2010 game.
Wahnish!
13-12-2009, 22:28
Our brand new, nearly complete website: http://www.teamkrunch.com
It's been a year in the making. I'm glad we're almost done!!
rdlevy1215
14-12-2009, 00:52
Team 1676, http://www.team1676.com/
JohnFogarty
14-12-2009, 06:47
http://maikenmagic.com
Team 1102's website they are supposedly completely remaking it, idk i porgram the robot not the website.
brianc217
14-12-2009, 08:21
What are most teams using to make their website?
Are you using CMS's like Joomla or just coding yourself with Dreamweaver or what?
Just curious. Thanks.
We use MediaWiki for team1640.com (http://team1640.com). This allows any of the student and mentors to edit pages and add content. It also allows us to link pages together quickly so you can move from topic to topic. Lastly it gives me a way to roll things back to a prior state, so if "something bad" happens, I can easily fix it.
While we don't have the flash and dazzle (or dancing flying exploding pigs) of other sites, we do have a lot of content. I tell our students it's all about the content, not about the flash. Mediawiki will allow you to change the skins so you can get your team colors, etc.
We have 182 pages of content (text information pages) that have 1284(*) pictures and or documents attached (embedded) into them. I'd say that 99% of our pictures have captions attached to them (who, what, etc) All of our prior year engineering documents are on-line.
This year we will make daily updates to the build season info. We will try to capture what happened on the prior day of build and what is planned for today's build. Each sub-team (electrical, mechanical, drive, etc) will post what their group is doing.
I highly recommend Mediawiki for site management.
(*) 1180 pictures are the last five years of build / compete. We try to put up just the good pictures rather than uploading the 15,000 that get taken every season.
hyperdude
14-12-2009, 17:49
I hand-code our website. Not with DreamWeaver - by hand.
I'm also stuck designing the darn thing too, so it's a slow process (given a website print, I can have a functioning site up and running in an hour or two).
Though I wish I had the time and motivation to put the website into a CMS.
burlymon33
14-12-2009, 23:59
Our webmaster is working on fixing alot of the broken links.
And we should probably sort through the 1500 some odd pictures we have in our photo gallery.
www.fusd1robotics.org
MissDaisyGirl
23-12-2009, 13:44
Miss Daisy revamped her website last year and won at San Diego:
http://www.team341.com
We currently only use a CMS, Wordpress, for the News section as I like to have the team members write recaps of our events and such. As for the rest of the site, I have one main student who types out code by hand in Dreamweaver (woo code completion!). Bless her.
As for other CMS', I don't have any experience with Joomla, Drupal, etc but have a feeling that I will get there in the near future. Either that or I'll get so sick with those that I'll develop a simple one on my own.
I also have had experience with SurrealCMS which is easy as pie to set up. One of my freelance clients uses it and has had no issues.
Oh, and I am also anti-Flash for all of the above mentioned reasons. :-P
waialua359
23-12-2009, 14:41
Here is our current site.
http://waialuarobotics.com.
It gets updated at least bi-weekly with events, updates and changes such as sponsorship changes/additions. It also features our newly created VEX team that includes 8th graders as well (since we are 7-12 school).
I have written several large complex level grants recently and we hope to get them as they range from 2-5 years which would setup our team for the next several years.
Hehe, here's Team 1631's site: www.team1631.com
It's still very much in the works, as we just got some things up. We're working on content, but we're not sure of what we want and don't want on it.
FIRSTtm134
23-12-2009, 21:07
hey... its not great but its an update from 134's old web site.
http://www.sau53.org/net9/First
darkangel
25-12-2009, 13:30
http://www.ghafirstrobotics.org/
Any advice for us?
Our student technical director writes the code for the site. We haven't uploaded our schedule yet, because it isn't completely set.
TEntwistle
25-12-2009, 15:02
Team 433's website is:
www.firebirds433.com
This is still a work in progress
teampronto
14-01-2010, 20:41
I hand-code our website. Not with DreamWeaver - by hand.
I'm also stuck designing the darn thing too, so it's a slow process (given a website print, I can have a functioning site up and running in an hour or two).
Though I wish I had the time and motivation to put the website into a CMS.
this. Notepad all the way. Design in PS.
sami9145
14-01-2010, 21:03
i know its not done yet but...
here is the site for FRC 2333 and FTC 3867 & 3869 (yes i am aware of the lots of teams -_- not fun to get deal with that)
sapulparobotics.webs.com
tips please? its not quite done but i want input
Talon 540's website:
http://www.team540.com/ (http://www.team540.com/cms)
In the past years our websites have been mostly HTML and made using dreamweaver but this year we decided to go with Joomla, a content management system. I am quite happy with it and there are a lot of capabilities for it. Its still a work in progress but let me know what you guys think.
jaredtking
15-01-2010, 00:25
The 2424 web site is http://bixbyrobotics.org.
I just realized that I have a few updates to make...:o I use Zend Studio for web sites, it is a PHP editor with excellent code completion and syntax highlighting features.
vanzomerenc
16-01-2010, 14:44
I am the new webmaster on the Creston High School (http://creston904.com/index.php) robotics team, and will probably be the first to actually map it out. Up until now, it has been hopelessly outdated due to the lack of having an actual webmaster for two consecutive years. I am currently working on making it easier to navigate.
mtfawcett2907
21-01-2010, 16:33
Team 2907 is looking to enter our website this year. Our current site is here.. http://www.auburn.wednet.edu/amhs/AMHS%20First%20Robotics/index.html I have a student working on the site and we are looking at purchasing our domain...
I was the webmaster for The Children of the Corn last year (Team 167). I don't know for sure if they're entering the contest this year, but I built a CMS for it and they've been updating every now and then, though much of it's still out of date.
For what it's worth: http://www.icrobotics.com (http://www.icrobotics.com/)
Comments/Questions/Advice?
Thanks,
-TD
I just finished the website for Norwell Robotics (http://www.norwellrobotics.com). Its written by hand using only notepad++. Any comments of advice would be nice.
I've about finished updating team 74's website this year. we've won the excellence award for two years now and I'm hoping that we finally win it this year.
hollandchaos (http://hollandchaos.com/)
any comments?
synth3tk
28-01-2010, 10:03
Our site probably won't be finished until ship-date, which means the judges may or may not view the final site, but we're shorthanded this year.
http://team964.com/
I just finished the website for Norwell Robotics (http://www.norwellrobotics.com). Its written by hand using only notepad++. Any comments of advice would be nice.
Looking good so far, for it to be in Notepad++ only. Just a few suggestions for the "<head>" tag. Number one, those "<script>"s should go within the "<head></head>" combo. Number two, a "<title>TITLE GOES HERE</title>" in the head tag will go a long way. Search engines and people will love you more for it. :)
Also, in your footer, try putting links to each of those logos. I tried to click them, thinking they led somewhere, just like on the sponsors page. Clicking on logos are one of those things that people will try to do without thinking, and I'm sure your sponsors would appreciate the extra click-throughs. ;)
MFennig8
28-01-2010, 11:41
http://www.247dabears.com
fordchrist675
28-01-2010, 14:36
Our team's website is
http://techhighteam675.com
Check it out!
FIRSTtm134
28-01-2010, 14:52
http://www.sau53.org/net9/First
This is 134's brand new website. Made it this year im my web page design class. continuing to modify it. Need some tips or some suggestions
-J.R.
JohnFogarty
28-01-2010, 17:56
www.maikenmagic.com it's getting a 2010 revamp extreamly
Count me in.
http://cprobodogs2171.com/index.php
team1672
01-02-2010, 17:44
team1672.com (http://www.team1672.com)
We are still adding content, but the design is complete. What do you guys think of it?
Here is our team's (1816) website: http://www.edinarobotics.com/
GileanTheSage
03-02-2010, 20:48
What are most teams using to make their website?
Are you using CMS's like Joomla or just coding yourself with Dreamweaver or what?
Just curious. Thanks.
1816 is currently running Drupal 6 with an extensive custom theme. I wrote the theme files by hand using Coda and Dreamweaver. It was rebuilt from scratch this summer. Most dynamic elements (I mean this as visual "flair" not server technology) on the pages are handled by some original JQuery code and some JQuery plugins (Lightbox2 and Superfish). The site is pretty much complete with a few content updates planned this March.
(Digging up an old conversation) I tend to stay away from Flash for a few reasons, one being that I don't know how to use it very well and also because site built entirely out of Flash are in my experience very very slow (Have you visited Adobe's site recently? :eek:), at least on my G5 iMac. It's important to remember that not everyone uses modern hardware and browsers. The percentage of people visiting the 1816 site using IE6 is still around 20%. Who knows how old/new those computers are? It makes it difficult to construct a website that works on every browser but it can be done.
elemental
04-02-2010, 17:52
Here is the Team 2655's new website: http://team2655.org/index.html#
It is a notepad website. Few bugs to be worked out and some content to be added but it's complete for the most part.
Please let me know if you have suggestions.
EDIT: I remember seeing the copywrite statement for the game animation somewhere on Chiefdelphi and now I can't find it. Can anyone lead me in the right direction?
scottmacdonald
05-02-2010, 18:06
http://robotics.crescentschool.org/
Still some work to do on the pictures and stuff.
Just wondering, has anybody here found the submit website page, I've looked, but with no success.
Also how are you planning to go above and beyond with your website (ie handicap accessible website)
nitneylion452
06-02-2010, 00:21
http://www.fatherjudgerobotics.webs.com
That's our team website. I'm still working on it, but I don't plan on submitting it this year for a couple of reasons.
Any comments/suggestions? I would really like to hear them.
kavisiegel
06-02-2010, 00:28
I've been working on our site since the summer, I'd say it came out pretty good!
Still working on a few parts of it, but for what it's worth, http://www.team61.com
The Megan 2207
06-02-2010, 01:03
Ours is a work in progress, but it's getting a lot closer to completion. Most of the pages that say they will be coming soon are almost ready to be uploaded. We're running off of a template this year because our original webmaster graduated last year and the last of the others who have some experience are graduating this year. I've been finding ways to get around the template and mess with the code a lot, and I've been training newbies in as I go so hopefully it will be sustainable.
Anyway, here's team 2207's website: www.whitebearlakerobotics.com
Here's Team 223's website. It isn't quite finished, but it's getting there.
www.team223.com
Cjdowney
11-02-2010, 13:11
Here's team 3176, Purple Precision, website. It's not done yet; I still need to have our webmaster update it to the fixed one. In this one there are still some typos and information left out.
Brownsburg's Purple Precisions Website (http://www.brownsburg.k12.in.us/bhs/Clubs_Organizations/Robotics/Index.htm)
I plan on using more css later on, but for now this will have to do.
Feedback would still be nice.
1986titans
11-02-2010, 16:19
Our website is about 100% done.
http://www.teamtitanium.org/
F.R.E.D. Girl
12-02-2010, 11:45
here is team 2883's website
i built it by myself with notepad++
Team 2883 website (http://team2883.com/)
here is team 2883's website
i built it by myself with notepad++
Team 2883 website (http://team2883.com/)
What might help a little with readability is some compound sentences ;) See how every sentence in the first paragraph starts with "FIRST_____"? It feels somewhat choppy when I'm reading it in my head.
Suggestion:
"Team 2883 is based in Warroad, Minnesota. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology") was founded by Dean Kamen to expose young people to science, technology, and engineering. FIRST is an amazing program and is an eye-opening experience for everyone."
Fewer periods, more commas (in the right places), and easier to read.
F.R.E.D. Girl
12-02-2010, 18:23
What might help a little with readability is some compound sentences ;) See how every sentence in the first paragraph starts with "FIRST_____"? It feels somewhat choppy when I'm reading it in my head.
Suggestion:
"Team 2883 is based in Warroad, Minnesota. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology") was founded by Dean Kamen to expose young people to science, technology, and engineering. FIRST is an amazing program and is an eye-opening experience for everyone."
Fewer periods, more commas (in the right places), and easier to read.
thanks for looking.. yeah i'm not very good at writing that kind of stuff
thanks for the comment/ suggestion
Captain banana
12-02-2010, 19:26
http://team1510.bpsrobotics.org/
I think there are some glitches here, but it may just be my computer. feedback is always welcome.
O'Sancheski
12-02-2010, 19:40
we just built up a new site... not all the bugs are taken out but here's what we have so far...
http://www.Team-Paragon.org
ShilaJimena
12-02-2010, 19:52
www.team-paragon.org
Any any ANY feedback is greatly appreciated. :) :) :)
ShilaJimena
12-02-2010, 20:37
http://www.247dabears.com
Try putting your sponsors' logos on the home page or on a banner of some sort.
wendells
14-02-2010, 09:37
team2185 presents for 2010 : FIRE...HD (Fire in High Defination)
http://www.team2185.com
Try putting your sponsors' logos on the home page or on a banner of some sort.
They are. At the bottom of the page.
team2185 presents for 2010 : FIRE...HD (Fire in High Defination)
http://www.team2185.com (http://www.team2185.com/)
This was probably very funny to watch me visit this site. My eyes went wide with the cool animation, then i sat there for about 5 mintues trying to figure out where the rest of the site was. Your enter button was literally JUST below my screen and i didnt see it when i tried to scroll. you might want to include a script to recognize how big the screen is so that if is to big then the enter button gets pushed to the side of the video. but it looks nice :)
wendells
14-02-2010, 10:26
Thanks orange hat, I will draw your concerns to the team members.
wendells
Team 847 will be submitting again this year.
http://www.team847.com/
We've done a little bit of modification to the template and such, as well as added new information since last year. Let me know what you think.
-Kit
Oregon and Las Vegas Regional Award Winners:
team1540.org (http://www.team1540.org)
We're in the process of updating with new content soon, but as they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
@team 1540:
Nice clean site! On a sort of minor note, it looks like you're missing an end bracket for your last youtube video.
Also, Stuypulse/694:
stuypulse.com (http://stuypulse.com/)
It's funny, you wouldn't think that the hardest part would be keeping the content updated, but it requires more work than a jquery gallery!
Team1710
18-02-2010, 09:50
Team 1710's website is up and running!
www.ravonics.net (http://www.ravonics.net)
We're up and running again, with a huge revamp from our old site. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
http://gpgearheads.org
Daniel_LaFleur
18-02-2010, 13:13
Ours isnt quite done ... but Here's our website (http://www.team1729.org).
MVRT 115's website has undergone a total reconstruction @ mvrt.com
new design, new layout, everything from the old website design has been changed.
The content still remains as it was last year with pictures, resources for other teams, and videos of competition.
Suggestions/improvements are appreciated :)
MVRT 115's website has undergone a total reconstruction @ mvrt.com
Suggestions/improvements are appreciated :)
I think you should check the FIRST Logo restrictions (http://usfirst.org/uploadedFiles/Community/FRC/FRC_Communications_Resource_Center/Communication_Assets/FIRSTlogoStandards_Comprehensive.pdf) again. You are violating them in several places.
-Kit
Downingtown Area Robotics (team1640.com (http://team1640.com)) is ready, we've done some recent cleanup (thanks Dan for the tips) and are open for business.
bhsrobotics1671
18-02-2010, 15:43
www.brt1671.com
Our webpage. (www.x-cats.org)
MVRT 115's website has undergone a total reconstruction @ mvrt.com
new design, new layout, everything from the old website design has been changed.
The content still remains as it was last year with pictures, resources for other teams, and videos of competition.
Suggestions/improvements are appreciated :)
I don't know if it's something that you've written in, or if your host/CMS does it automatically, but I can't view your site because it blocks you if you try to access it using IE, like I unfortunately am right now (the school doesn't let us use Firefox or Chrome). If you're submitting it for the award, you might want to try and lift that.
darkangel
18-02-2010, 22:25
http://www.ghafirstrobotics.org/ <--- We did a LOT of work on the site over the past few days.
synth3tk
18-02-2010, 23:11
I don't know if it's something that you've written in, or if your host/CMS does it automatically, but I can't view your site because it blocks you if you try to access it using IE, like I unfortunately am right now (the school doesn't let us use Firefox or Chrome). If you're submitting it for the award, you might want to try and lift that.
Either they fixed it since you've posted that, or it's not blocking IE. I can view it just fine in IE8 and IE7 (along with their respective compatibility modes). It's possible your school is blocking it? That happened to us one year. We couldn't view our own site, because for some odd reason the school's firewall/security software blocked it. Possibly since we were on shared hosting, and the IP we used might've been within a range of prohibited addresses.
Either they fixed it since you've posted that, or it's not blocking IE. I can view it just fine in IE8 and IE7 (along with their respective compatibility modes). It's possible your school is blocking it? That happened to us one year. We couldn't view our own site, because for some odd reason the school's firewall/security software blocked it. Possibly since we were on shared hosting, and the IP we used might've been within a range of prohibited addresses.
Yea, we were having some problems with getting it to work with IE but they should be solved now. IE 8 is recommended but I think 7 kinda works. Albeit, it is a little slow when I tried it on IE so we recommend different browsers.
Akash Rastogi
19-02-2010, 02:50
We submitted, but we still have a ton of work left to do. This was coded from scratch in about two weeks and has a fully optimized Google back end. We'll put up an information page about the site soon to show how it all works through Google apps. If anyone has suggestions, feel free.
Right now it can't be viewed in IE. Works best in Chrome or FF.
www.mort11.org
MasterRobot
19-02-2010, 06:11
Team 2438 is happy to present our website http://koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/robotics/web10/#
Technically, the team is happy, but our webmaster still thinks that there are many things to fix. I personally really like the website and think it is quite artistic, but if there are any suggestions, I'd be happy to pass them on to the webmaster.
http://koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/robotics/web10/#
The COMETS have just finished their site, take a look below:
http://cometsrobotics.firstobjective.org (http://comets.firstobjective.org)
Team 1515's submission: http://bhrobotics.com
1836's site is at http://milkenknights.com/ . I made most of the stuff on it from scratch.
Our web team finished our new website yesterday, and uploaded it to the host at around 9:30 PM Thursday.
killerbees33.com
little.goetz
19-02-2010, 21:48
Team 1510's new site. No longer just grey and blue. We appreciate all comments/constructive criticisms. You can find it at http://team1510.bpsrobotics.org/
waialua359
19-02-2010, 22:55
Here is our current site.
http://waialuarobotics.com.
It gets updated at least bi-weekly with events, updates and changes such as sponsorship changes/additions.
Final revisions made now. We will update throughout competition season as we participate in events and do more outreach, etc.
Good Luck everyone.
Ooh! I love all the nice websites this year!
This year we tried Joomla (since coding by Notepad++ last year was just ridiculous!)
http://team781.com/ (:
sundancekid92
20-02-2010, 12:33
Here (http://www.team56.com) is team 56's website. We are still polishing a few things. Please critique to help let us improve it. Thank You! :]
F.R.E.D. Girl
20-02-2010, 12:39
hopefully it is at 100% now:D
team2883's website (http://www.team2883.com)
Team 1158 Eagle Corps Robotics's website is up. Been having some problems with the host server. Hope people can get in. We are trying to see if we can get US First to allow us to change host servers.
www.eaglecorps.ws
Here (http://www.team56.com) is team 56's website. We are still polishing a few things. Please critique to help let us improve it. Thank You! :]
You're website looks really awesome!! You've improved it alot this year! We can't wait to compete with you guys in NJ and Philly. Hopefully we will be able to work together again :)
commodoredl
20-02-2010, 23:41
578 is just about finished with our new website; here it is. Going to the Finger Lakes and Buckeye Regionals. :cool:
www.fairportfirst.com
Eragon301
21-02-2010, 13:55
Team 1777's website (http://www.vikingrobotics.org) we won the 2009 Best Website Award at the KC regional, but we still added a bunch of things to make it even better this year.
sundancekid92
21-02-2010, 20:05
Thanks 223. Love your website. looks like grey is in this season :D
Can't wait to play with another J&J team especially another Extreme one : P
http://www.marsbot.org/
It's a Mega Awesome website!
Danny Diaz
21-02-2010, 21:22
If anyone wants to provide feedback, we'd love to hear it:
http://www.lasarobotics.org
-Danny
Alex Dinsmoor
21-02-2010, 21:33
After winning the Traverse City District event's Best Website Award, the FEDS are back with another dynamite website!
http://feds201.net
or if you're reading this through your iPod Touch or iPhone you can visit our iDevice specific site!
FEDS Mobile (http://dinsmoor.webs.com/fedsmobile.html#home)
Enjoy!
If anyone wants to provide feedback, we'd love to hear it:
http://www.lasarobotics.org
-Danny
The site looks great.
I would suggest updating your videos and photos with 2010 content.
We use an online photo gallery (picasa, flickr) that's easier to update than gallery2. We use picasa , here's a tutorial for developing a php script to integrate those photos
http://dev.vexevents.org/node/7
The DiscoBots are back in 2010 with new students and a whole new design.
http://2010.discobots.org
In order for this thread to become more effective, it needs to become more like those "comment on the person above you" threads where the next poster comments on the content of their predecessors. Surely, with all these web developers on this site, we'd be able to get more feedback and discussion then there currently is in this thread...
http://2010.discobots.org
You have a nice clean site; well organized, structured and definitely easy on the eyes. I like how your banner and navigation bar take less than 110px of vertical space on your site. One thing that could be improved would be how your gallery bunches up some of your pictures, particularly this page (http://2010.discobots.org/node/15?album=picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/base/user/LamarRobotics/albumid/5439725472239100545?alt=rss&hl=en_US), where there are three rows of pictures stacked right upon each other. Would it be possible to set the height of the cells to serve as a buffer between the rows? Also the "Future Aspirations" in your members page (http://2010.discobots.org/node/4) is spelled as a single word (intentionally?).
http://feds201.net
The site itself is simple while containing all your content which many teams can not manage. I don't know if this was intentionally done, but your FIRST page (http://www.feds201.net/FIRST.html) has some issues with your "FIRST's Leagues" logos at the bottom where the html is stretching the image greater than the image actually is. It also seems that your navigation bar is disproportionally smaller than the rest of your site.
And finally, I can't leave end without promoting my own team's website: http://www.mckinleyrobotics.org/2010/index.php
Constructive criticism is neither unwanted or shied from and would be greatly appreciated.
In order for this thread to become more effective, it needs to become more like those "comment on the person above you" threads where the next poster comments on the content of their predecessors. Surely, with all these web developers on this site, we'd be able to get more feedback and discussion then there currently is in this thread...
I agree completely , I will do my best to add some more constructive feedback for other teams to improve.
You have a nice clean site; well organized, structured and definitely easy on the eyes. I like how your banner and navigation bar take less than 110px of vertical space on your site. One thing that could be improved would be how your gallery bunches up some of your pictures, particularly this page (http://2010.discobots.org/node/15?album=picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/base/user/LamarRobotics/albumid/5439725472239100545?alt=rss&hl=en_US), where there are three rows of pictures stacked right upon each other. Would it be possible to set the height of the cells to serve as a buffer between the rows? Also the "Future Aspirations" in your members page (http://2010.discobots.org/node/4) is spelled as a single word (intentionally?).
I'll forward these details onto our web design team. They are furiously working on submitting for the VEX website design challenge !
RyanCesiel
27-02-2010, 02:57
AdamBots.com (http://www.adambots.com)
We used the same basic design from last year but changed things up with the navigation and header. We also added a homepage image display (team picture changes between three pictures) and added a sidebar video popup.
It should work in all browsers except IE6 and 7. I plan on fixing it for IE7 but this will be the first version that I leave IE6 behind with just an update message for those viewing the site with IE6.
Let me know if you guys have any suggestions/feedback!
Danny Diaz
27-02-2010, 14:20
The site looks great.
I would suggest updating your videos and photos with 2010 content.
Yup, we'll get to it, but not right now - we don't usually plaster tons of information about our current season until after our first event (Dallas Regional this year).
The DiscoBots are back in 2010 with new students and a whole new design. http://2010.discobots.org
Very nice, very clean, very informative. No wonder you won in '08!
-Danny
Akash Rastogi
10-03-2010, 02:44
site is almost ready for Boston judging
www.mort11.org
Still fixing the code for Internet Explorer, works in FF and Chrome
Rebecca Wasmer
24-03-2010, 20:31
Check out Team 340's FLR winning website here. (http://www.team340.org/) Or http://www.team340.org/
I'm a rookie and this is the first website I have ever made, so feedback would be nice.
Thanks. (:
Interlake HS is honored to take home the Microsoft Seattle Regional Website Award today. Congratulations to all the Saints Robotics kids who worked tirelessly on it this season.
http://www.saintsrobotics.com/
Team 461 is proud of its website which recently took home the Website Award from both the Boilermaker Regional and the Buckeye Regional. This is at least the third year in a row in which the layout/theme was completely redone while preserving most legacy content.
http://www.boilerinvasion.org.
I am glad to say Team 2502 won 10,000 lakes website award with www.team2502.com
JohnFogarty
08-04-2010, 21:35
temm me what you guys think of M'Aiken Magic's new website http://www.maikenmagic.com
Hey guys! Team 486 has just renovated their website.
Could you guys give us some advice / feedback? (I am the webmaster of the site)
Thanks!
team486.com
mdotjoelint
26-09-2010, 21:44
Team 2137 has created a new website, though lots of content is missing, the main idea of the site is well portrayed!
http://www.team2137.org/
We took GUS Robotics' website as an inspiration on what we wanted and what we wanted different.
Take a look and tell us what you think!
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