Web Competitors 2011 [Archive]

1986titans

14-01-2011, 00:40

I was surprised to find that there wasn't one of these already.

Like previous threads, feel free to post your team's entry for the website award this year, give feedback, etc.

Team Titanium's website is located at http://www.teamtitanium.org/ . It's not complete, but it should be soon. If you want to compare the look (it's very similar right now) to last year's site, click the FRSee tab, as the CSS for it is localized.

SteveGPage

14-01-2011, 01:04

www.robobees.org

It is about 90% done, still adding some older galleries, blogs, and fixing the calendar.

bhsrobotics1671

14-01-2011, 01:51

In Progress:

http://www.brt1671.com

waialua359

14-01-2011, 02:09

Our build season is updated daily, the day after each build day.

http://www.waialuarobotics.com.

synth3tk

14-01-2011, 10:54

Work-in-progress. Probably won't be "finished" until Week 3 or 4.

http://rethinkrobotics.org

dcarr

14-01-2011, 20:29

Mostly a carryover from last year, but working on adding more regular updates, organizing media & content better. Feedback is welcome! I'm learning a lot by checking out other team sites so please give me your recommendations/complaints/fixes :-)

www.serviterobotics.org

Em.Er.Go.

15-01-2011, 16:24

Who was the national website winner of 2010?? anyone know?

Dustin Shadbolt

15-01-2011, 17:11

461 Westside Boiler Invasion was the national winner last season.

http://www.boilerinvasion.org

David El

19-01-2011, 13:21

www.sjarobotics.com
Feedback would be greatly appreciated :)

Dustin Shadbolt

19-01-2011, 14:49

www.sjarobotics.com
Feedback would be greatly appreciated :)

I notice you have music playing in the background on your website, and I couldn't figure out how to stop it. That's because your playing controls are not showing up properly. I get like a pixel show that I can barely see to click to stop the music. I'm running Google Chrome.

klmx30302

19-01-2011, 15:38

After several years of our website going relatively unchanged we completely redesigned it.
Here is the old site: http://chopshop166.com/cms/
Here is the new site: http://chopshop166.com/drupal/
We're still working on it and it will probably not be finished for a week or two but it looks good so far.

basicxman

19-01-2011, 15:43

In development, http://mmrambotics.ca

Code at http://github.com/MMRambotics/MMRambotics.ca :D

JohnFogarty

19-01-2011, 15:49

http://maikenmagic.com/
In Progress

basicxman

19-01-2011, 15:51

http://maikenmagic.com/
In Progress

Looks good, but my very first two impressions are

Please don't change the cursor
How about a team email address instead of a gmail?

I like how there's a good picture front and center, but perhaps think about moving it higher above the fold.

Also, I like the Ship Date counter :D

2641Captain

19-01-2011, 18:04

Hey guys Team 2641 is getting serious about developing a web presence this year. The general layout of out site is finished, now we are just adding content. Any constructive criticism is really appreciated.:)

http://team2641.com

David El

19-01-2011, 19:13

I notice you have music playing in the background on your website, and I couldn't figure out how to stop it. That's because your playing controls are not showing up properly. I get like a pixel show that I can barely see to click to stop the music. I'm running Google Chrome.

Thanks, that problem should be solved now :)

Dustin Shadbolt

19-01-2011, 21:46

Thanks, that problem should be solved now :)

Yep it is! Nice site overall.

jwmatson16

19-01-2011, 22:59

Team Stealth 1802
Piper High School

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

robotics1208

20-01-2011, 14:18

Looking for critique on what to add and not to add.
The websites look great

www.othsrobotics.com

Also the domain doesnt really work without the "www" we tried the htaccess redirect but that didnt seem to fix the problem

Team 1208
O'Fallon Township High School

basicxman

20-01-2011, 14:24

Also the domain doesnt really work without the "www" we tried the htaccess redirect but that didnt seem to fix the problem

What web server do you run?

Here's a sample from ours.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} (on)?
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www.mmrambotics.ca$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)
RewriteRule .? http(?%1s)://mmrambotics.ca%2 [R=301]

robotics1208

20-01-2011, 14:31

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^othsrobotics.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.othsrobotics.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect 302 /welcome.php http://www.othsrobotics.com/index.shtml

is what we currently have

We are running DirectAdmin as our server

basicxman

20-01-2011, 14:36

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^othsrobotics.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.othsrobotics.com/$1 [R=301,L]

That would only redirect non-www URL's to www URL's.

robotics1208

20-01-2011, 14:42

We know that's the code but for some reason it doesnt work.

Where do we put that code?

Nahum

20-01-2011, 14:55

www.eastlakerobotics.org
pretty much done, still a little in progress.

David El

20-01-2011, 19:23

Yep it is! Nice site overall.
Thanks :)

sdlynx

20-01-2011, 21:40

This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.

Dustin Shadbolt

22-01-2011, 19:38

Thanks :)

No Problem!

www.eastlakerobotics.org
pretty much done, still a little in progress.

Nice website overall. Some simple suggestions:

1) Give some styling to your dropdown menus. Like a hover state that way it's easier (and cooler) to see which one you are hovering over.

2) I suggest making your logo clickable :P. People's instincts are to click the logo to go home.

But again nice site!

This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.

Nice slider concept in the center! I was thinking of doing something like that this year. Do you use your own custom cms?

Sean Raia

22-01-2011, 19:51

I am pleased to share our website (http://www.team1559.com) with you all.

I have been working off of last years template to try and make it fresh, basic, and sleek. I hope to hear some constructive criticism from you CD folks.

sdlynx

23-01-2011, 00:05

Nice slider concept in the center! I was thinking of doing something like that this year. Do you use your own custom cms?

Yeah. It's just a little bit of simple MySQL and I used CKEditor. If only I could get someone else to actually write the content now haha.

If someone zooms in on the site though, the layout gets totally ruined. Anybody think of a way around this?

ajd

23-01-2011, 00:09

This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.

When I view this site, the logo banner ("Power Hawks Robotics Team 1111 from ...") displays to the left of the rest of the content, making the page twice as wide as my screen. I'm on Google Chrome, Linux.

Team 3238's website is at http://team3238.com - any feedback is appreciated.

sdlynx

23-01-2011, 22:11

When I view this site, the logo banner ("Power Hawks Robotics Team 1111 from ...") displays to the left of the rest of the content, making the page twice as wide as my screen. I'm on Google Chrome, Linux.

Team 3238's website is at http://team3238.com - any feedback is appreciated.

You might be on an old build of chrome, it works fine for me on linux and windows through chrome.

Speaking of which, when the award guidelines say the site should work in all browsers, does it imply that the browsers being tested are only the newest versions? Our website works in the newest version of all browsers but fails on some old ones (IE 6/7 or something like that).

Dustin Shadbolt

23-01-2011, 22:24

You might be on an old build of chrome, it works fine for me on linux and windows through chrome.

Speaking of which, when the award guidelines say the site should work in all browsers, does it imply that the browsers being tested are only the newest versions? Our website works in the newest version of all browsers but fails on some old ones (IE 6/7 or something like that).

The main old browser you need to be concerned with is the IE series. Now I will try to make a website work for IE6, but you could also take the route of displaying a notice that states "Hey you are an really really old browser. Click here to upgrade to a new faster secure one". Then list FF,Chrome,IE#. However, I would try to optimize for IE7. You could use this site to get a feel for the number of people using each web browser and what version they usually run. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

However, I don't think you will be counted off horribly for not being able to display properly in IE6 and others.

xSAWxBLADEx

23-01-2011, 22:38

www.247dabears.com

MaxMax161

24-01-2011, 08:57

So what do you guys think? http://www.team1676.com/

fortinj1354

26-01-2011, 14:25

I'm new to our team this year, but no one else wanted/could do it, so here it is. (Work in progress) http://waltonrobotics.org

Bob Steele

26-01-2011, 15:29

Work in progress but most of it is there..

www.ahsrobotics.us

Home of the Skunkworks Robotics Team

robodude03

26-01-2011, 15:35

Also a work in progress:

http://team399.org/

Web site works well on iPhone and iPad too, just need to add more content. Any comments would be appreciated :)

sdlynx

26-01-2011, 17:29

xSAWxBLADEx

27-01-2011, 14:17

Work in progress but most of it is there..

www.ahsrobotics.us

Home of the Skunkworks Robotics Team

very nice i mean very nice...a few minor things theres a random white line on the front page to the right above the skunk facts (its very minor), and with your awards that picture really through me off cause it was below the 2006 awards and its 2010 i think its just the wrong placement of that picture maybe even deleted it truely doesnt need to be there but overall its great good job :)

robodude03

27-01-2011, 14:29

Does anyone know a good way to test whether our site works with an older browser aside from actually getting it (I don't even know if this is possible).

Edit: http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ does this.

You can download Internet Explorer 9 which has an option to use IE 7 or 8 standards. Just hit F12 to bring up the developer options. Let me know if you need more help.

rsegrest

29-01-2011, 14:33

Like everyone else we are up and getting updated almost daily. Constructive comments are welcome...

www.pantherbots.net.

:D

sdlynx

30-01-2011, 23:28

You can download Internet Explorer 9 which has an option to use IE 7 or 8 standards. Just hit F12 to bring up the developer options. Let me know if you need more help.

Oh cool, I didn't know that. Looks like it'll be useful if I can ever actually edit the site to work for IE 7. Thanks.

elemental

31-01-2011, 14:20

www.team2655.org (http://team2655.org/index.html)

I'm still writing and receiving content so some pages are almost blank. Any comments/criticism on what I have so far will be very welcome.
Thank you!

maltz1881

31-01-2011, 14:32

www.team1322.org We are doing an update but content should be close to the same TY

robodude03

31-01-2011, 14:55

Oh cool, I didn't know that. Looks like it'll be useful if I can ever actually edit the site to work for IE 7. Thanks.

No problem. IE 8 and below are really the only browsers you will have to do some major tweaking to. As for the other browsers, lets just say I like standards and the fact that Microsoft is finally making an attempt to follow them is a positive thing :P

FIRSTtm134

31-01-2011, 14:58

Team 134's website is located here www.134team.org (http://www.134team.org)New version should be up by the end of the week.

R.C.

31-01-2011, 15:00

Throw us into the list:

team1323.com

-RC

mdotjoelint

02-02-2011, 23:05

Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

elemental

03-02-2011, 09:06

Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

Nice website! I thought the background would be to busy at first but it grew on me.
When I went to the homepage I was a bit confused since all that appeared was blog posts and a mini team bio on the sidebar. I don't really know the limitations of Wordpress but would it be possible to include a short welcome message at the top of the page and maybe the FIRST logo? People not familiar with FIRST or your team might be confused and pass the rest of your great content over if they are not grabbed and have a reason to look further.
Also, would it be possible to remove the title="" tags from your navigation? I have a hard time clicking on the right links because the image titles get in the way.
Otherwise very nice site and good content!

Dustin Shadbolt

06-02-2011, 02:23

Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

Elemental said most of the things that I could think of. If you can't code an intro paragraph via wordpress. You can just hardcode it (html) into the theme.

Koko Ed

06-02-2011, 07:51

http://www.x-cats.org/

ahollenbach

06-02-2011, 15:29

www.cybersonics.org (http://www.cybersonics.org)
Any input would be awesome!
This year, we have put on a lot more information (although we're still lacking quite a bit, IMO). Also, if anyone has suggestions on how to keep our dynamic menu from hiding behind our flash objects, that would be great (we already tried changing the z-indices)

ahollenbach

06-02-2011, 15:35

Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

Maybe it's just for me, but your post-date class is just showing a time. Therefore it always looks like this for me (chrome):
by Joe on 5:40 PM in News, Summary
For your script, if the post is >1 day old, it should default to date only, no time displayed. If the psot is <1 day old, "on" should be "at"

Otherwise, your site looks awesome! Keep up the good work.

SavtaKenneth

06-02-2011, 15:48

Ours is at aleh2212.com (aleh2212.com)
still has a lot of work to be done on it, I trust our website team to do a good job though.

Joseph Bisch

06-02-2011, 16:09

Check out Team 2064's website at our new URL: www.frc2064.com

Feedback is much appreciated.

KC1AJT

07-02-2011, 11:30

our site for this year is still currently in development, but I suspect it to be done by the end of the week

here's the link to the main page: http://www.team61.com

basicxman

07-02-2011, 11:42

Gah, 10 days left to finish websites D:

elemental

07-02-2011, 11:52

Check out Team 2064's website at our new URL: www.frc2064.com

Feedback is much appreciated.

Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes. ;)

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.

elemental

07-02-2011, 11:54

Gah, 10 days left to finish websites D:

D: And the deadline is noon so I won't be able to stay up until midnight working on last-minuet details.

So much to do so little time. :ahh:

Joseph Bisch

07-02-2011, 12:26

Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes. ;)

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.

Thank you for your input. I am going to implement those content related changes. It would be helpful to know your computer's resolution.

Font color is an area that I was having issues with. Also, I was having trouble getting the links to be noticeable without the grey highlight.

Would you please try looking at the site again. I changed the font. Though I know it won't totally fix the black on red issue, it may help. The font looks crisper to me.

elemental

07-02-2011, 12:43

Thank you for your input. I am going to implement those content related changes. It would be helpful to know your computer's resolution.

Font color is an area that I was having issues with. Also, I was having trouble getting the links to be noticeable without the grey highlight.

Would you please try looking at the site again. I changed the font. Though I know it won't totally fix the black on red issue, it may help. The font looks crisper to me.

Hi,
My computer resolution is 1920x1200. To get the menu content centered you could try adding a text-align:center; or a margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; to your css.

I checked your website again and yes the font looks easier to read. I understand that it takes a lot of work to change colors/fonts on websites. For the links perhaps some shade of blue?

Joseph Bisch

07-02-2011, 13:00

Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes. ;)

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.

Hi,
My computer resolution is 1920x1200. To get the menu content centered you could try adding a text-align:center; or a margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; to your css.

I checked your website again and yes the font looks easier to read. I understand that it takes a lot of work to change colors/fonts on websites. For the links perhaps some shade of blue?

Thank you for your help. That is a high resolution monitor:yikes: .

I went with a light blue for most of the links and they look good without a highlight.

ahollenbach

07-02-2011, 18:47

D: And the deadline is noon so I won't be able to stay up until midnight working on last-minuet details.

So much to do so little time. :ahh:

Sure there will be! HTMLathon from 2:30pm the 16th into 11:59am the 17th!!!

who needs sleep? :p

Dustin Shadbolt

08-02-2011, 09:30

Sure there will be! HTMLathon from 2:30pm the 16th into 11:59am the 17th!!!

who needs sleep? :p

Yep agreed ;)

Em.Er.Go.

11-02-2011, 00:18

Dustin Shadbolt

11-02-2011, 21:51

Here is Team Fusion 364's site:

www.teamfusion364.org (http://www.teamfusion364.org)

We are still putting in information and working out tweaks, but we would love any constructive criticism you may have. Good luck to all the teams!

First off, awesome site. I always like how professional some sites look. Definitely gives a first impression! I love the QR-Code lol. Overall nice site (especially the logo and use of the first logo elements). However, I do have to say the background is a little busy. Maybe less would be better when it comes to your site? I would also throw a small suggestion up to add a hover state for your drop-down menu items. Maybe a simple white text (bolder) or a white color change or something. Again overall nice site. Is there a mobile version?

OScubed

12-02-2011, 12:27

http://www.penfieldrobotics.com for the Harris RF, Penfield High School FIRST Team 1511 Rolling Thunder Website!

kpp58

12-02-2011, 16:26

Here is Team 58 The Riotcrew's website.
http://riotcrew.org/
Any feedback would be appreciated on this survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/riotcrewwebsurvey

Thanks

mdotjoelint

12-02-2011, 18:47

Maybe it's just for me, but your post-date class is just showing a time. Therefore it always looks like this for me (chrome):

For your script, if the post is >1 day old, it should default to date only, no time displayed. If the psot is <1 day old, "on" should be "at"

Otherwise, your site looks awesome! Keep up the good work.

Yes, I realize the issue. I use chrome as well. I'm having trouble changing it, but I'm confident that I'll figure it out.

Thanks for the input, it was worth it's weight in gold!

mdotjoelint

12-02-2011, 19:24

Nice website! I thought the background would be to busy at first but it grew on me.
When I went to the homepage I was a bit confused since all that appeared was blog posts and a mini team bio on the sidebar. I don't really know the limitations of Wordpress but would it be possible to include a short welcome message at the top of the page and maybe the FIRST logo? People not familiar with FIRST or your team might be confused and pass the rest of your great content over if they are not grabbed and have a reason to look further.
Also, would it be possible to remove the title="" tags from your navigation? I have a hard time clicking on the right links because the image titles get in the way.
Otherwise very nice site and good content!

Thanks for the input! I'll take it all into account.

I'll try and hook'em.

Em.Er.Go.

12-02-2011, 21:39

First off, awesome site. I always like how professional some sites look. Definitely gives a first impression! I love the QR-Code lol. Overall nice site (especially the logo and use of the first logo elements). However, I do have to say the background is a little busy. Maybe less would be better when it comes to your site? I would also throw a small suggestion up to add a hover state for your drop-down menu items. Maybe a simple white text (bolder) or a white color change or something. Again overall nice site. Is there a mobile version?

Thanks for the feedback! the menu has a hover state, the text goes from white to grey...maybe it's just not too noticeable with your monitor's settings. and nope, no mobile version yet. it works fine on most phones though.

Systemetric

13-02-2011, 14:29

After 2 months of design and development, our updated site is now online at systemetric.org (http://www.systemetric.org). Let us know what you think!

2641Captain

13-02-2011, 19:34

Hey guys our web site is almost finished and the deadline is rapidly approaching. Check out our site http://team2641.com . I still have to do the "Our Story" page, I want it to be good.

ernie.

13-02-2011, 21:03

What theme did you use in Wordpress?

KC1AJT

15-02-2011, 16:09

Ok Team 61 has our site just about done, just some minor things here and there. http://team61.com please give feedback!

Joseph Bisch

15-02-2011, 16:12

Ok Team 61 has our site just about done, just some minor things here and there. http://team61.com please give feedback!

Nice, very professional. Maybe add information on your school(s), unless I just missed it.

KC1AJT

15-02-2011, 16:16

Nice, very professional. Maybe add information on your school(s), unless I just missed it.
There's a little bit on the home page, about the team page, and the vocational collaboration page. There is also a link to the school's site in the bottom left.

Elizabeth Waters

15-02-2011, 17:39

www.team624.org

Enjoy!

If you haven't already, our team has also created (like last year) a free iPhone application with the season manual and other documents. Check it out for easy access during the competition: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frc-logomotion/id413898243?mt=8.

Kelsey1923

15-02-2011, 17:49

Hey we were wondering if you could make changes after you submit the website award.

Dustin Shadbolt

15-02-2011, 18:03

Hey we were wondering if you could make changes after you submit the website award.

I wouldn't see why not :). They do expect you to keep the site up-to-date and functioning as a real website.

Red One

15-02-2011, 20:16

Here is The Devastators 2011 site built from scratch. It's not finished yet and there's going to be a big overhaul hopefully tonight with all links working and adjustments to visual effects. :D

http://www.hsawaco.org/FRCTeam/Home.html

Jogo

15-02-2011, 21:40

Yeah you can change your site. And if your a late regional, there's a good chance that judges won't see your site for a couple weeks anyways.

North Sailor

16-02-2011, 11:08

Yeah you can change your site. And if your a late regional, there's a good chance that judges won't see your site for a couple weeks anyways.

You can make changes to the site, but they will not be visible for what the judges see. For the FIRST submission in years past, it takes a capture of the site at the time of deadline. Any changes after this will be solely for the benefit of the viewing public, but not for judging.

Sunshine

16-02-2011, 12:59

Check out Team 2062's website at our new URL: http://core2062.com/

Epic

17-02-2011, 12:45

Check out Team 2851's new website!

http://crevolutionrobotics.org

North Sailor

17-02-2011, 12:55

The new ILITE Robotics Website:

www.first1885.org (http://www.first1885.org)

basicxman

17-02-2011, 13:56

I had to go into a sudden surgery and didn't get the website to where I wanted it, when do the judges generally start analyzing websites?

Dustin Shadbolt

17-02-2011, 14:59

I had to go into a sudden surgery and didn't get the website to where I wanted it, when do the judges generally start analyzing websites?

Kind of wondering the same thing.. We got the website submitted but we did notice when inspecting it closer the some of the files got goofed in the transfer. It's fixed now but I'm just wondering if that will hurt us in the long run.

North Sailor

17-02-2011, 15:19

Kind of wondering the same thing.. We got the website submitted but we did notice when inspecting it closer the some of the files got goofed in the transfer. It's fixed now but I'm just wondering if that will hurt us in the long run.
The websites are usually judged two to three weeks prior to the regional, depending on the organization of that regional. As I mentioned before, unless it has suddenly changed, the version of the site that they will see is the version you had uploaded at exactly noon today. In the past the FIRST system takes a capture of the directory at the deadline, and that is what is judged.

Hope that helps.

Dustin Shadbolt

17-02-2011, 15:34

The websites are usually judged two to three weeks prior to the regional, depending on the organization of that regional. As I mentioned before, unless it has suddenly changed, the version of the site that they will see is the version you had uploaded at exactly noon today. In the past the FIRST system takes a capture of the directory at the deadline, and that is what is judged.

Hope that helps.

Eeks. Thanks :\. Lets hope the kids got the files swamped out in time then.

KC1AJT

17-02-2011, 17:02

Dustin Shadbolt

17-02-2011, 17:19

gloomy_lion

17-02-2011, 17:27

Check out the new website of the Robo-Lions: http://www.robo-lions.org/

North Sailor

18-02-2011, 07:37

i know for a fact that last year "snapshots" were not used. one of our mentors is a website judge for regionals we dont compete in and she would actually judge them in her spare time at the meetings. judges are just given a list of urls you have nothing to worry about

6.8.1 Submission and Deadline Information
Teams must enter their website into the FIRST awards submission site by Noon EST on
February 17, 2011 to be evaluated. Each team’s website is eligible for a website award at
every regional event at which the team is competing. The website must be complete and
functional by the date of submission. Any website found to be “down,” and not viewable by
the evaluators, will be disqualified.

I am also a website judge. The judges are given a list of URLs through the FIRST submission website not on the public internet, which could imply the use of a snapshot. This allows them to look specifically at the website at time of submission. Any detail beyond this, may be in speculation, as it is not discussed in further detail in the rulebook.