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www.bixbyrobotics.org

completely written by team member with a secure login script.

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I like it so far, but just two things:

Another one of my pet peeves, and that's forum navigation. I love what a lot of teams are doing with their forums, whichever software they decide to use. But please Please PLEASE edit the header file to include (at the very least) a link back to the main site. If you need help with that I'd be more than willing to show you how.

Upon further investigation of your code I noticed that you use a .png picture and code in the links at certain places. Brilliant, but that's the downfall. Now I don't know exact why, haven't really tried to find out, but IE apparently doesn't have good PNG support. So even though you probably used the same colors in the editor for the header pattern and the navigation logo, it doesn't match up right. FF is fine, as expected. Somebody who really knows IE's PNG flaw please explain it to me.

Microsoft obviously fail'd at making a super compatible browser. Something that works in EVERY other browser could suck in Internet Explorer, sad part is most people use it.

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Looks good, but you should resize your images in the gallery to make thumbnails. Loading the full images in the page is a big hit on bandwidth and it's much lower quality than resizing the images in a program. (Resizing images in browsers = weird artifacts)

Your code would look like this:
Thanks, I added it right above the Board Index link.

Yeah, I'm really not sure what's up. Opera works perfectly as well.

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I believe that IE 5.5+ has a *.png transparency issue (something with the way that it resolves alpha), but I'm not positive that's your error. :confused:

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Yeah, the PNG is not transparent at all. Does IE maybe use color profiles or something like that?

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Our site doesn't support IE 5 and 5.5, only because no one really uses them anymore.

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I don't even remember what IE5 looked like. Do you have any idea why the PNG on our site appears darker in IE? (Top left)

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It's difficult to explain, but yes, IE does interpret colors differently than other browsers. In your case, I'm not quite sure why that is showing up lighter/darker. Are you sure you don't have a slight transparency effect on either of the images?

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I'd try to create the image with transparency (No background pattern overlaying the second) to see if it makes a difference, the image itself in IE looks different when loaded separately.

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You may find your answers about .PNG file issues and Internet Explorer here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/pngopacity/

Also, a nice program/website I found lets you install IE3, IE4.01, IE5, IE5.5, and IE6 all at once. It can help anyone out who would have browser conflicts in their code like I had... http://tredosoft.com/Multiple_IE

zim2411, have you tried to take a screenshot of how your site should look (Firefox maybe?) and then crop out a new image with the background intact?

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It's under a lot of construction. Please I want any and all constructive criticism... Our Site

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Bravenet is a no-no. :rolleyes:

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Well, its not a bad site with the exception of it being under construction, but bravenet free web-hosting and any ads are a major negative in FIRST's eyes. :eek:

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I agree! I don't mean to put you down, because the overall design is fantastic, and there's a lot of good information, but any sort of pre-made template, or banner advertising is just... disgusting.

By the way, did anyone else think that this year's website rubric is much easier than last season's? I mean, there's no mention of browser compatability, accessibility, or interactivity anywhere! Not that I'm complaining, but more difficult criteria makes for more interesting competition, doesn't it?

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I would think that, regardless, you would want your website to have cross-platform/browser compatibility because you really don't know what the judges are using to view it.