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Attention all Webmasters out there....
Hey everyone im starting a thread because my friend and I are both webmasters from seperate teams and we both comment on each others webpages. So I started to think its about time we had a forum for all of us nerdy webmasters to go and talk to other nerdy webmasters about our teams FIRST robotics pages ..... So here goes....
My team is 168 The Flashbacks we just recently won the Central Florida Regional event at UCF..... We are from North Miami Beach, FL Our temas website is http://chargerrobotics.dadeschools.net check it out would you and let me now how it looks and if you guys have any suggestions.... This is what we should all do until everyone who joins is familiar with each others pages! :) Email me at: ShukyMeyer@hotmail.com |
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You could use a little more organized webpage. May I suggest some tables? I'm Petey. I'm co-webmaster of www.theforceteam.com. Basically, a design genius on the team does the design and I do the content and all of the hardware stuff. It's running off my own webserver, which I set up with apache, php, cgi, perl, and mySQL. Hopefully, we'll be moving over to a new server soon with more bandwidth and email capabilities. --Petey |
Woah petey (hehe), don't you think that signature is a bit excessive in size?
And on the topic of a forum for webmasters, you could just use the Website Design/Showcase forum. |
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Name's Chris and I'm Webmaster for Team 781. http://www.kineticknights.com I do know that a lot of the functions aren't working, but I'm working on a new design and layout. Chris |
While I don't understand what this thread is about, here is my bit of info.
Hey, AJ Quick, the webmaster of Team 6's site, CogSquad.org. This is probably my 10th major website I've ever built or worked on, the main of the code is programmed in PHP, with a huge mySQL database with over 15,000 entries in it. We feature a huge scouting database with pages about every team in FIRST last year, and this year. Including up to date copies of the Match data, and Seeds from each regional, not to mention awards, and webcasts. Our scouting database will be made global this coming summer, being available on Palm, and PocketPC, and XML format for websites. Our forum is a copy of phpBB, with about 20 hours of modifications made to the base script. Including new profile entries, and new calender, attachments, and several very small modification you may never recognzie they are there. There is also an image gallery I wrote, where other teams can upload pictures of their robot, and view pictures we too have uploaded. Plus a links section, where anyone can add their favorite team website, or important link to it. Our site has been booming since it first started about 3 weeks ago, and the future is only getting brighter. Please come on over, and register, and use the resources we have here. Also, any errors, or suggestions you may have? |
YAY Kinetic Knights.. I was actually at your page yesterday. I registered, but when I log in I get a weird blank page. Actually, a lot of the links get me the same weird blank page. And your page is definitly lacking content.
:( LOL, I hope you guys work on your website or put some photos up or something because your team was really cool :) |
Team 201's Web forums & Scouting info (http://www.feds201.com)
The entire site uses PHP (www.php.net) and MySQL (www.mysql.com). All of the db interaction and templateing uses the phpBB (www.phpbb.com) board structure. Our scouting system features a poll, along with a robot profile which can be edited by a member. We have all match results from www.usfirst.org. Also, we have links to some other major scouting sites. Lastly, i've worked with Brandon here and we display any pics on cd of the robot, links to start threads on a team, and a quick search feature. Also, I've created a comments section in which people can comment on a team. (It's actually just a bunch of forums which i've made hidden from the index) Also, I've made many changes to the phpBB code. If you ever have any questions about this great bulletin board system, feel free to ask me. I'm hopeing to work this year with other teams on CD to create a massive scouting network for next year. Oh, a little cool feature about our scouting is: http://www.feds201.com - Our main portal/index http://fbi.feds201.com - The main team list / scouting page http://fbi.feds201.com/201 or http://fbi.feds201.com/47 - Takes you directly to that teams page. Jack |
Team 75.. came very close to winning the web site award at the J&J Mid-Atlantic regional.. www.roboraiders.com
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Your site is pretty cool and conrats on the web award
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Hey, Eric from RoboCards (Team 5). I'm currently constructing a new layout for the website. Hopefully I will be able to put up a lil' user login/register thing.
I'd have to say that #201's website is the best (besides #6). I've not been to all, but so far, they are. Currently though, team 5's website is shabby on the cross-browser thing. |
My name's George and I'm webmaster for Beach Cities Robotics, Team 294.
I'm redesigning the website right now, hopefully I'll be able to put in a locally hosted forum and a private team area. |
Look at it while you can. I'm planning on redesigning it over the summer: Woburn Robotics.
One piece of advice I could give to a few of these websites, is to lose the dark background. There are a whole lot more, but that's a loooong post. |
i'm the..well..former webmaster for SPAM..gave it over to a sophomore this year..it's at http://www.spamrobotics.org/
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Aaron Knight here, webmaster for Neverending Chaos....
Here's our team's site: http://first891.topcities.com. Unfortunately, of late we have been required to go to a (hopefully) temporary mirror free site while our school district gets its collective act together. Soon, hopefully, we will be able to relaunch it with movies from last year and this. The site is entirely designed using HTML and simple JavaScript, and is created using Adobe Photoshop 7 and Golive 5/6 exclusively, no PHP or anything (too busy to learn that). Regards Aaron Knight Webmaster and Videographer Team 891: Neverending Chaos...... http://first891.topcities.com CHAMPIONSHIP PICTURES POSTED........ |
Well, here's a link to team 1075's website: www.sinclairsprockets.com. Made with Photoshop 6 and Notepad. Seems to look good in all browsers I tested it on (NS4, NS7, Opera6, Opera7, IE4-6). It is not updated at all lately, and there is not much recent info. I'll remake it over the summer, but maybe the design will stay. The site desperately needs a real portal engine, a forum, and maybe a Flash version :)
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Hi all! My name's David, and i'm the webmaster from Team 66. www.willowrunrobotics.com
The editor offered by our host is trellix, which doesnt allow for much html editing. If you know a good host that will accomodate both WYSIWYG and HTML let me know. Also, if anyone knows of good places in the SE Michigan area that have camps for web design let me know, im interested in learning more! Thanks a lot. |
Yo people... David66 does your host have ftp capabilities? if so u can just use notepad/frontpage/Dreamweaver etc. to build the site and upload via FTP. An excelent free ftp software is smartFTP (avaible at downloads.com). Also, Frontpage and DreamWeaver have FTP capibilities built in. And by the way what do you all think about my stie/my teams site. www.circuitrunners.com We have our own host, but it redirects to the county's server b/c thats where the site was orginally at. Except, the county's server seems to be not fully functioning right now.... should be back up soon though.
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Hey, I'm Albert and i'm the Webmaster (and pr, and media design, and... you get the picture) for 1072 (hrt).
I've been doing webdesign for about 6 years now, playing around with lots of different WYSIWYG programs, spending alot of time doing HTML only, and then settling on Adobe GoLive as my editor of choice. Our site is done in HTML - I haven't bothered to learn PHP and perl doesn't really lend itsself to inline scripting - though we do have a perl-powered forum which is lightly modified to meet our needs (i just put it up a couple weeks ago, so we're still breaking it in.) expected additions are a gallery and a calendar, which should be up shortly. Our programmers know linux and perl better than i do, but none of them are any good at web design, so they don't bother with it, leaving me to do all the CGI-coding/server maintainence. ah, life on an understaffed team ;) |
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Adobe GoLive Macromedia Dreamweaver Good Webhosting www.ehostsource.com Good HTML help sites www.funky-chickens.com http://annabella.net/html.html www.dynamicdrive.com www.activejump.com --Petey |
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http://www.htmlgoodies.com http://www.htmlclinic.com http://www.w3schools.com |
May I just add in that I use Dreamweaver MX, and it is the best editor I've seen. I really like it. Syntax highlighting, and even pop-ups that'll help you if you're blanking on a command or attribute.
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I actually use DreamWeaver's HTML editor, and quick preview. It is a pretty much overglorified version of Notepad with an FTP upload. |
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Out of personal preference, I like Adobe GoLive (not in it's most recent incarnation, but version 5) because it has a much cleaner interface, and lets you toggle modes between syntax, preview and actual object-oriented drag- and-drop coding, albeit not with the cleanest code.
I tried out Dreamweaver and found it to be very sluggish on a modern computer (the computer was a G4/500 or something like that with a gig of RAM) and it STILL was sluggish - despite beating the minimum sys requirements for that version. I also found its site management to be very counter-intuitive. I may be biased towards Golive since I've used it since version 4 (2000 or so) but I find it much more useful and elegant of a tool. Plus, it gets kudos for working hand-in-hand well with Photoshop, albeit it oughta since it's a Adobe product. GoLive ain't cheap, but you can get an academic license, cross-platform, for $79 which will suit. It's full featured, just with the disclaimer on the splash screen about being for academic purposes. Haven't looked to see DMX's price, I personally don't ever want to look back at that product again. 'Course, there is something to be said for hand-coding code with Notepad or TextEdit/SimpleText..... Aaron Knight Webmaster and Videographer Team 891: Neverending Chaos.... http://first891.topcities.com CHAMPIONSHIP PHOTOS POSTED!!!! |
DWMX is in no way sluggish for me. AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 256MB PC2700 (DDR333) w/ Win XP Home SP1... Maybes its just the mac vershion or bad school comps.... The "MX" interface is much improved over other previous ones. Though I do do the inital lay out of my sites in notepad b/c I can mostly look at my code and visualize it. Plus notepad is "the bomb" and we all know it....
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dreamweaver's site management is really bad, cause it keeps all your site management data (relative links, etc) in a central database. golive keeps seperate databases for each site which can be moved around and easily backed up. if you lose your dreamweaver DB, yer scrooooooed :D
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My main reason for preferring Adobe GoLive is its site management tools. I got sick and tired of changing one file location or something and manually having to fix the documents linked to it one by one. GoLive's method automates the process pretty well while doing it rather elegantly. I didn't like Dreamweaver's method in the version I used. MX may be different but I don't have access to it nor do I really want access to it.
I have not tried the PC version so I have no basis to compare that version, nor do I pretend to. All I know is that pretty much all of Macromedia's mac versions that I've seen of late are pretty clunky. Aaron Knight Webmaster and Videographer Team 891: Neverending Chaos.... http://first891.topcities.com |
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I think we have copies of Adobe GoLive on some of the computers in the Lab I'm currently in. I'll go and check it out, as I've never used it before. |
I guess HTML-kit doesn't have any fans here?
Its a super duper text-editor with syntax coloring, quick preview (just hit f12!), rich-hint (forget a property? just hit space. it even explains what it does, what values are acceptable, and if you're that kind of person, what versions of (X)HTML it is applicable for...) and enough plugins that if it doesn't come with a feature you want, there is a plugin that'll do it. Only downside is that it has so much stuff that sometimes you can't remember how to use it. (It took me like 10 minutes of searching the preferences to get wordwrap turned on again.) |
another good text only editor is First Page 2000.
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I've used First Page 200x before and I liked it. However, since I primarily use Macs for my developement, can't use it. Ergo, can't use the HTML-kit either.
If anyone out there's in need of a good Mac html editor (not nearly on the level of Golive or Dreamweaver or the like, but a really good color-coding etc editor), ya might wanna give PageSpinner (Optima Systems, like $20 shareware or something like that) a try. I used it for a while before I got hooked up with GoLive (and, I might add, never looked back....). It''s a great editor, just doesn't have the site management tools I've come to rely on in GoLive. Aaron Knight Webmaster and Videographer Team 891: Neverending Chaos.... http://first891.topcities.com |
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I think the Chief Delphi forums people should start our own editor, with all the stuff normal people need to edit a site. And make it open source, and...*snaps out of his dream and returns to a notepad screen full of characters* But no, seriously, I'm new here so I don't know if this happens a lot, but everyone has something they want in an editor, maybe we could contribute to one of the current ones... Just a thought...
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Anthony Mangia, webmaster for Team 25.
www.raiderrobotix.org Some sections are still under construction. |
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Nicely done Aignam, rarely do you see a webmaster who can actually use a pen. That or you have great photoshop filters :)
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Addendum to my original post (see page 1):
Our school district never got its collective act together, so we've gone out an purchased a domain and are currently hosting off of my own personal package. The site since the last post (sometime last season) has been redesigned using CSS and HTML primarily hand-coded using PageSpinner and GoLive CS on my shiny new iMac G4 :) http://www.neverendingchaos.com Neverending Chaos... behold the power of pi. |
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Nice looking site, good to see another low level coder out there to get a break from WYSIWYG. But...macs...meh :) I do like how your site doesn't have gobs of images, the images look good, the navigation is simple, and it has plenty of content.
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Aaron. Nicesite overall. Good, straightforward and easy to nav. But if want some constructive critcism then i would sya add some tables or graphics to give things some seperation.
http://geargrinders.net All hand coded. Yes i know it only works in IE (and mabie a few others). Someday i my get around to spiffing things up adding more content, fixing the compatabilit isue etc. Any comments would be greatly appreciated. They might actually motivate me to fix/improve/totally redo something. |
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I am from team 1255 and ya'll probably rember the old one we had that really sucked, but I took over and we put this new one up (WARNING: I know that the webpage is not fullscreen and it has alot of whitespace that it shouldn't, but that is because one of our other team members is launching the page and he dosen't have all the graphics that I do. In otherwords, it's a work in progress.)
http://24.28.104.71/robotics/ |
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No offense, but I'd still get a new name. Zelda, first of all is a product of Nintendo. Secondly, unless you like to draw some hero of your own creation named zelda, you probably shouldn't use those pictures. I don't know many people who would go after you, but still...
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Haha, sounds like you did all you could. Just hope you don't get disqualified.
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Why should we? Since we are giving credit to the Nintindo corp. and using their stuff for a non-profit organization....... WAIT A MINUTE!! *Leans back in chair and steeples fingures* Thank you very much.... I have leverage now and may be able to get them to change the team name. :D
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I'm also pretty much spearheading the organization of the team this year, so I'm a little tapped out.... |
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Name's Lulu, webmistress for TJ^2 (team 88)
http://www.tj2.org Still somewhat lacking on content... some links are in need of repair. ^-^;; I'm lazy. |
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