Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

The pink really, honestly, wouldn't be so bad as a background and across the entire header. But there should be a different background for the text areas.

I know you mentioned your site was created to meet the needs of your team first, but I hope you come away from this thread with at least some of our suggestions. One that I view as important whether it's an intranet for a Fortune 500 company or a team's public website, is to have common navigation throughout the entire site. It doesn't even have to look the same (although that's strongly encouraged), you just need something somewhere on the page so that people can navigate between pages.

It doesn't look like you're using PHP or any other scripting language, so I guess you could try the suggestion here, although it'll only work if your web server was configured to support it:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/ssi/a/aa052002a.htm

Essentially, you'd make a file "header.html" and just include it at the top of each page.

Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

Interesting site. There are somethings that could be changed, but I think it looks pretty decent. Are the students designing it? Kudos to them if they are.
I know you guys probably won't want to do this, but I'm telling you anyway, you should try to tone it down a little and make it a bit more professional (better color scheme, less "flashy"ness to it.)

I also suggest that you try to incorporate your top sponsors into your header or homepage. This makes them happy and helps provide better visibility to them. Feel free to check out our website for more ideas as well (www.teamneutrino.org). Feel free to contact me or anyone else I'm sure if you guys have any questions.

Good luck!
David

Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

OK...big changes made, mostly based on everyone's input. Team is having lots of fun with this, and work continues...but please check it out again everyone, and let us know what you think.

http://hotbotz2640.org/

Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

Huge improvement! You've literally brought your web design forward at least 10 years!

A few quick suggestions:

• Footer should be persistent across all pages
• Header logo should be consistent across all pages
• Font/background contrast is a little off. Consider choosing colors that contrast more with the pink and dark-grey background (white could work, but play with it and see what is easiest to read & aesthetic)

Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

1000% better! Good job. :)

Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

I -LOVE- your sponsorship video!

Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

Thanks! That was done completely by one member of the team during the summer before her sophomore year. I'll pass on the complement!

Where in the Burgh is your team...I'm originally from the Irwin area. We really wanted to come to the Pittsburgh Regional this year, but it is the same week as our NC event.

Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

WOW! 5000% improvement! Are you guys on Wordpress now then? Kinda looks that way :) Although what I said before (Including your top sponsors on each page) would be nice, you don't have to do it. Also if you lost some of the pink in the footer (from the bottom), and continued the background, that would make the page look a bit nicer, but again, you don't have to do any of this, just some friendly comments :)

Happy Holidays!
-David

Re: Hotbotz 2640 New Website
 

A quick look at the code reveals that no, they are not using wordpress.