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That is what we were arguing way back last summer, but we never got around to fixing that. The gallery has more problems, but it only does that in Internet Explorer. (that I have found so far) This is a great example of why IE is terrible. We plan to fix that eventually. Right now we are making a login for a moderator's panel to add photos to the gallery and stuff.

Besides the gallery problem, what else can be improved? We are looking more at a standpoint of promoting our team, FIRST, etc. (yes, for the award) Thanks.

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You may want to rethink the huge graphic on the main page. At 1024x768, at least, it pushes all of your content below the fold. It might even work better if you try a panorama style image there instead, I don't know. I do like how it resizes.

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I just noticed that on someone's computer, using 1024 by 768 res. that image appears under the text "spam robotics" when it normally is left of the text. My computer has the same resolution and same browser (firefox), but it is different. It also did that consistently

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Its funny that our forums have been up for a little over a week and we now have about 20 registered members, a few are moderators. So far, we have had 4 offenses involving people posting pornographic material. I thought it was strange that this was happening so often. I don't mind the moderating, but its kind of...um...perverted. Each of those people, I have suspended for one week and told them, via email, that if they break a rule again, they will be banned indefinitely. Some moderators think I should have banned them indefinitely right now. I am not sure who the people are that posted that stuff; they could be on our team, or maybe not.

I am wondering a few things. Is it common to have about one offense of that degree per day in a forum with only 20 members? Did I do right by not banning them indefinitely since it was their first offense? Would you try to prevent it from happening again by not allowing users to post pictures?

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This is very strange, especially for a forum of that size. I don't know how useful my advice would be, but let me just offer my experience: Our forum is larger in size and is split into two subforums (General and Private, the latter of which requires authorized usernames to enter). Our General Forum is sometimes used by other teams, and is extremely rarely abused. We don't put an emphasis on any sort of community feel like CD does (for example CD has many extraneous features like image attachments, profiles, and avatars), which seems to have the adverse (and illogical) effect of encouraging abuse in certain situations. CD has strayed from this path because it enforces this community environment very well, but I've found abuse occurs often on Invision/phpBB/YaBB/XMB boards with a low user content and no real community. That is, I would argue that such "high end" boards are made for large amounts of people and sort of crumble if they remain small. The two major reasons I think that our forum has remained "clean" are that (1) it's simple and straightforward, getting the job done and little else, and (2) we require, or at least strongly encourage the use of real names.

Since you're using an Invision Board but only have 20 members, my best suggestion is to try to implement (2), as this will usher in some serious accountability. The solution can be to ban on rare occasions, but limiting forum features might not want to be the path to choose at this point.

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Wow nice site.

Can I suggest a little more padding-top on the top nav bar?

That site is very well done. You also might want to make the image on the main page slightly smaller, but nice.

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I was going more for the freedom of posting direction then restricting things like names. I do see how that would help though. The problem has stopped for the past few days, maybe the series was a coinccidence.

I don't know why the image is displaying so large. It was smaller and no one changed it. I'll look into that. I don't know what you meant by the padding.

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It's not me, really it's not.