Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

There'll probably be many ways to cheat the system no matter what precautions you use, but I like the idea of this.

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

I think it would be a good idea, I would try to fit it into the site somehow, it would also be nice to have a list of all of FIRSTs team websites, count me in

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

All right, I take back what I said. It is really cool, easy, and simple. Plus, for whatever reason my team's site is #1... and I didn't [intentionally] cheat. I think that 60 seconds or whatever is way too short. Mainly because I have been working on my teams website for the last hour or so and I didn't realize that it was counting every page view on your site (oops! sorry). Now I am stuck with #1 (not complaining, just explaining :P) and feel bad. Anyway, I would increase the amount of time/IP logging just so normal website viewers won't falsely boost the ratings.

Thanks anyway, it is alot cooler than I thought (when I last posted it was down).

EDIT: 109 Hits now... heh. I didn't vote though, and we have an 8.5. Score!(well, sort of)

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

We won't have any trouble with cookies, since cookies are not used. I'm going to add a 24 hour limit per ip per one hit to each website.

Oh yeah, voting needs a limit too. :)

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

I assume your modifing it right now.. heh. I was working on my site again and got a dreaded X of doom! Went to the topsite and was returned the error

"Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (11)"

Those changes sound good to me! I really wasn't trying to cheat the system, I just happen to have no life and I am constantly working on our site. :o

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

What I made it do, is record the ip and the id of hit... The list can be found here: http://franklin.f2o.org/topsite/data/online.db.php

After 12 hours the listed that is over 12 hours old, "should" go away. And that ip address can once again contribute one more hit for that webpage.

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

ill help you out if you want.

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

Sounds cool. I've added it to our portal on ChiefDelphi.

You're going to change the FIRST logo, though, right? It violates their usage policies..

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

Is the violation the fact that the word "FIRST" is no longer attached to the FIRST logo?

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

This is indeed pretty cool, I guess in a way I added a counter?

cool idea.

-Mike

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

You cannot really modify the logo... Look at this page http://www.usfirst.org/4vol/FLLresou...ics/index.html
You will get all the information about the logo you want over there.

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

http://franklin.f2o.org/topsite/index.php

is that better?

hmmm... now for the button... :ahh:

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

Well, there goes my shot at being #1 :rolleyes:

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

The topsite page is not loading this morning. I'm not sure I can leave an image on our welcome page that isn't going to consistently load. Whats happening?

edit: it's loading now .. hmm.

Re: FIRST Topsite?
 

The large logo is closer to right, but needs more whitespace around it. the whitespace border needs to be atleast as wide a the FIRST letters are tall. For the button, I think you'll need to abandon the logo entirely. There's a minimum size requirement, and while that's harder to translate to a computer screen, either the logo will have to be really tiny and not legal, or the button will have to be pretty big for that kind of thing.