Web Competitors 2005
 

Let's see some of the new web designing talent the 2005 season brings. This is of course the successor to the 2004 thread, but since people are dying to showcase their work, it's best to post here rather than there now. The guidelines are to limit discussion as this is a showcase thread more than anything. If you want to discuss an individual site or some design element, or FIRST's rules for the award (which as of this post aren't out), start a new thread.

Link to your sites!

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http://www.team1208.org/ is the site we had running on a whim over the 2004 season. It's powered by an aging PHP4-written backend that a friend and I hacked together (literally) in a handful of hours. The design was done by me and another friend over the span of several days. In retrospect, it's ugly, and the code sucks, but I (and evidently also the folks who judged sites at the STL regional) thought it was "okay" back in the day.

The one I'm working on in Draco/mod_python is at http://dev.team1208.org/ and runs on a couple of Celeron 700's at my house. I started earlier this year on settling on a decent page layout for the site so I could buy myself some time to work on and perfect the backend. For what it's worth, it's overly unfinished, but the page layout is there with some greeking applied.

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http://www.plainedgeschools.org/hsrobotics

is my creation :D

I'll be adding a lot to it over the Holiday Break, but there is a good amount to look at as of now. So have fun!

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www.team696.com is my team's new site. Note that is has changed from .org to .com :)

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http://hhsrobotics.circuitrunners.com is my baby and my team's website. I've still got plenty of work to do over this winter break, including updating with the new logo, and spicing up the design a bit, as well as any changes concurrent with the 2005 rules, but it works for now.

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http://www.teamthrust.us/

That is my teams website, i have put a lot of work into it, but there are still many problems that need to be fixed. Right now i am working on the Navigation Menu, and the Gallery.

It probably isn't the best design, but i plan to go for more content than design, however, i don't have hardly any content on there, sigh, sadness. :(

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www.sparky384.com

Redesigned for the new year and ready to go!.. We have over 1000 pictures and media that is either uploaded or scheduled to be uploaded in the next few days..

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Our domain appears to have lapsed, so Monta Vista Robotics (team 115) is currently at http://mvrt.wellnow.net/

Hopefully we'll actually get a domain sometime soon.

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Here's a rookie site. We will be at Detroit.

PM me or something if you like it.

http://metalmuscle.org

-axe

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CVHS Robotics Website. (Crescent Valley Highschool)
Currently undergoing a redesign.

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http://www.team100.org - it's still a work in progress.

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http://www.team1640.com

Rookie Site

Please tell me how you like it!

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the layout is ok!!! but you need more things to put in your website...
try explain what is the first, and something else...!

by the way, my team 2004's website is www.tribotecteam.com... unfortunately we don't get the website "excellence" award... but, we are in that way! :)

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www.theforceteam.com will be back again, you can be sure of that, with some new coding tricks from my boy Volte.

www.projecthelpinghands.com is in the works too.

Look for us to kick some arse. ;)

--Petey

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Hey, My site is

http://www.mibot.org

Please check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions, email me at: mirobotics@gmail.com

Thanks

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www.systemetric.org < Semi new, in that it has been up about 2 months

some bits still not working properly, but the website was hand coded by one of the team. We probably will be entering it this year, assuming we get it completely and utterly working

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http://webbrobotics.org - team 1466's site, coming soon!
And I think my old team is competing too - http://athenianrobotics.org

Much love to Sevaa for hosting

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http://www.friarbot.com/

We're adding 2005 content and re-writing much of the code to support mySQL.

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This year would be the first time in about 4 years since our team put the effort into the website. We made our own php and mysql database as well as made it html and css validated. The first logo hasn't been changed yet and some of the links aren't up yet though


www.gleberobotics.com

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Our new website is
www.aceshigh176.com

It's made with some awesome open source code. Check it out!

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http://wwhsrobotics.com

I know very basic web development, so the site is done mostly with server-side includes.

Tribotec new website
 

Hey guys our new website ins't done, but we already have the new layout, you can see that in www.tribotecteam.com/newfirst and see the old site in the www.tribotecteam.com ...

let me know what do you think about the layout/design...!

ok?!

thanks!! :D

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Our students have been working very hard on this site. Please look around and PM me with your comments.


http://www.firstubergeeks.com

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http://www.TnT280.com

The site is still under construction but the team of student designers includes myself and two others. We have two mentors who help us out a bit.

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Here's our website. I think the team did a good job with it.
http://boilerinvasion.org
Eric

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Here's our new site. Still in the works of course, but we have been busy as of late and unable to finish it off completely yet.

http://wilsonvillerobotics.com

Suggestions and/or comments greatly appreciated - its what helps us improve

Jeff

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www.bedfordexpress.com

About 60% done... much more to come! keep checking back!

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thanks...! didn't you see my post ?!! :PPPPPP

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Here is the 2005 version of the X-Cats site.

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www.team66.com

E-mail any feedback to DavidButzin@comcast.net

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I agree with NICK...Try to improve the content a bit....like explaining FIRST and somethimg else....

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Team 839
This is my spawn. The layout is partially stolen from a free layouts site, but I modified it quite a bit. For one, I added a second iFrame for the navigation bar, so that it could scroll independantly, I plan to add more pages some time.

Send feedback to webmaster@team839.com please! ^_^

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yeah that was the service provider's problem. Only was for one day but it wasn't just our website it was all under the nemesis2 domain but thanks. I guess somebody accidentally turned off the MySQL service =P

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Well, I've seen a website you guys might like:http://www.ammoknights.com . My team is looking for some input on it and your opinions are much appreciated!

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http://shsrobotics.org

team 230's attempt at the website award! :D feed back can be sent to sam.lipscomb@gmail.com

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Hey, I'm from Team 1676, a rookie team who will be attending the NJ Regional.

We tried our hand at this website thing:
www.teampioneers.com

Critique, comments...anything
Drom me a line at mhayon@pascack.k12.nj.us

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Here is our new site. This is only the second year that we have created a team site. It will see minor revisions during the next week and a half before the judging deadline.:ahh:

http://www.kellycafe.com/TOLTECH499/

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Team 1241 - theory6

2005 Season website.

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S.P.A.M. Robotics, team 180, is now finished with the 2005 website.

http://spamrobotics.com/

Thanks to Sevaa (sevaa.com) for providing the free web hosting. We really want to win an award this year so I took over the site and made drastic changes. If there is any additional feedback about our website, feel free to send it in our helpdesk system. That is located at http://spamrobotics.com/ticket.php and if you want a reply, leave your email address.

Good luck to everyone in this year's website competition.

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New Year. New Domain. New Server.
Team 754
Please send feedback by clicking on the 'Contact Us' Link.

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Second season of team website. Brand new design. 4 new domains.

Strath Haven Robotics.com
Positronic Panthers.com
Team486.com
Got Robot?

leave feedback via the contact form.

the "Who We Are" page is being witten as we speak. should be posted soon.

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Cybersonics Technology Team 103 has altered the design of its website. We've added a team blog as well, which should be up later today.

http://www.cybersonics.org

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Team 900 Infinity's website.

Team 900 2005

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The Firebird's website :D

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Website judging has started.

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Team1039:
www.team1039.org

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well it looks like we wont be competing in this. Our website was pretty much done in october by the head website guy who was in charge of submitting the link didnt read the rules and only submitted it through TIMS. Oh well, maybe next year. it was a good site too

www.gleberobotics.com (its actuallly been posted on this before)

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http://www.hopkinton.k12.ma.us/high/...life/robotics/

team 596. threw this together myself, its pretty basic, but i'm still looking for a lot of feedback. please comment, let me know what you think about... anything

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Team 157
Our web page is located at
www.aztechs157.org
Let me know what you think.

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Team 107

Please tell me what you think of it at L337dexter@gmail.com - I need all the suggestions I can get right now

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Beach Cities Robotics will be competing.

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Team 1446

No clip art is used in our site.

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Team 639 : http://www.team639.org

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Team 228 :: http://www.team228.org/
I created this entire site from scratch this year :ahh:. Thankfully, all my 2 AM nights and loads hard work paid off when our team won the Best Website Award at UTC. :cool:

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Despite some rather major logistical setbacks, we got our site back up and running during the season. Thanks to all the people that stepped up and added content and resources for 2005. We're determined to stay a great team resource this year. And hard work paid off; our site won the award at a regional level for the third time -- in the current award's two-year existence -- at Waterloo.

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Good, except that intro pages are always annoying and slow down each visit to the site.

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http://shsrobotics.org/05/index.htm

The frame at the top could be a little bit smaller. It makes the main frame harder to see and navigate, and takes up too much room. Otherwise, it looks great-- simple, easy to navigate...

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Our are just starting a team, and we don't have a FIRST website yet. But, this is the website for our Technology and Engineering club:

http://lmtechclub.atspace.com

There are going to be a lot of changes when we get php support...

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I think the site definetly has some good starting potential, couple things though.

- Try to keep the same color scheme. I personally like the gray pastel scheme, but if you have another favorite go with that. Just don't try to mix gray with the yellow header and the blue text, etc. (Maybe a pastel blue, like the one in the FIRST topsite button would work)
- Disable javascript in your browser and see what happens. The entire navigation bar dissappears. Try to detect if the user has javascript enabled, if they don't display a normal nav bar.

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could I ask ' jonathan lall ' whom i really respect for what he had done with their website to give us his opinion about our website ?? (team909.com)
(but please ... I know that our XHTML coding has problems)

appreciate it

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Why thank you. But big ups to you for a great site.

As we aren't dealing with coding, my only perhaps worthwhile (and subjective) criticism is that I normally don't like intros that take more than ten seconds and/or have sound, but this is a decision you have to make. The intro itself is rather well-made so I would keep it. If you like that setup by all means go for it... though the multitude of links on your splash page are a little too confusing and numerous. You go from a black screen with a gazillion different fonts and colours, to the rest of the site.

But the layout is simplistic, easy on the eyes, and follows a consistent theme (with the exception of the splash). Navigation is a breeze, using two sets of tabs, which is a great way to go. Also, I like the way you have a database-based news system set up with comments and such. Your site follows a lot of the philosphy I follow, and that's why I rather like it. I'm impressed that you integrated your forum and gallery into the site's CSS-based layout as well.

Your site is really good, and there isn't much you could do to make it better. Seriously. Congratulations on your website award, it was clearly deserved.

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WOW !
I didn't think you would answer this fast (or even at all)
anyway thanks for the comments and tips ...
about that "splash page", I'll see what I can do ...
thanks again

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This is my and my schools first year in FIRST.

We are "DAWGMA Team 1712" I have been working on the web design of the site... Comments are welcomed.

http://www.dawgma.org
"May be under construction"

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www.ohsrobotics.org Ok i definitely have to post our site because it rocks! We won the regionals at VCU and after talking about what our web design leader's plans for this year I'm counting the days until it wins nationals! I'm just super proud of it! Go Ohm Wreckers! :D

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Hi Ben and welcome to ChiefDelphi. :)

I like the site's appearance. The only thing I notice right now is that the main page content only goes part of the way across the page, while the header goes all the way. It's a personal preference thing, but I would change it so both are the same width. (Full width or partial doesn't matter.)

I like the "Guide to FIRST" page. :)

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A bit late in the whole posting thing, but oh well, our current site is at http://www.blarglefishdev.com, with the exception of graphics, it's pretty much done for the year since I have to start teaching the new people how to program robots from now until kickoff so we can get some work done. Our website uses my favorite language, Java. It was a lot of fun to learn how to learn all of the JSP stuff and it's a cool language so I'd definately recommend it to... everyone.

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Hello Everybody!

Decided to finally stop messing around with our site and get back to posting on here...

Team 818 Steel Armadillo's Is a work in progress...Took me a while to find somthing that looked good, but I think I have it! Its been slow working as I'm the only one on the web team this year... Its a template made by me in CS2, Uses CuteNews for News (and RSS feed), The forums (which are barely up, I have no time to write the rules and such!) are done with a package called Simplemachines by www.simplemachines.org. IMHO much easier to use compared to PHPBB2 and or Invision... Less load on the servers and much easier to customize!

I like that layout! Its based off a blog right? (and I'm a huge sucker for those awesome green gradients!)

IMO, Too much brushed metal, I suggest centering your content, with the bg of that in brushed metal, bevel the edges on the sides, and make the real bg white/black/a solid color.... Otherwise it looks great!

:confused: Shouldn't there be an 06 thread or ?

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I second that.

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Since many teams usually begin working on their new websites around this time of the year, a Web Competitors 2006 thread has been started. Since this thread was started for last year's website competition, which has come and gone, continue posting all new websites for the 2005-06 season there. :)

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My teams site... programmed and designed by me is fully up now! http://www.dawgma.org... What do you wall think?

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I'm closing this thread

all web competitors can post their links here: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=40358