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Is this going to use an existing CMS, or based on your own custom coding?

Small suggestion (when the design is more final, of course): Have the robot images as thumbnails, then use Shadowbox or Lightbox to expand them when clicked.

I love the idea!

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It's going to be custom coded. That's why I'm leaving so much time to get it going. Lightbox definitely sounds like a good idea! Thanks for the interest!

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If you need any help, don't hesitate to contact me! I'm not a master by any stretch of the imagination, but I can contribute some pieces of code, and possibly a few minor graphics. :)

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I offered to do the design work - but I'd love some coding help so I dont' have to do it all!

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Will TRA be implemented into TBA in anyway? Will they be clashing or cooperative?

If both sites came together "TheFIRSTalliance" and you seperated both sites as one being a FIRST-Facebook for teams where you can see their past, present, and future, contact info, pictures, videos, team uploaded content and documents....while have the other be the more Competition side of FIRST, where you can get the stats, regional wins/loses and most of what TBA is right now.

Like, take the homepage for TBA, and you can hit the red light for REDalliance, which is for teams to be teams, or the BLUEalliance where teams can get facts and stats.

And while the FIRSTwiki is a good idea, there is something to be said for a complete home-grown website for FIRSTers.

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Wikis only have so much appeal to them, despite how powerful they can be. I like Tetraman's idea to have TBA and TRA cooperate with each other. One side is for the facts and stats, the other would be the "playful" side, where team spirit can be displayed by the teams.

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Ya, I haven't talked very much with the owners/operators of TBA but I could see a domain such as thepurplealliance.net being a single page portal to the two sites.

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I'd at least give them a hello. They could pass on some ideas of their own.

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Looking forward to this!

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Just wanted to let you all know I haven't forgotten about you! After a lot of going back and forth with domain registrars and hosting companies I finally got everything straightened out. You no long have to go to the address of a particular server to see the contents of The Red Alliance. thredalliance.net is the official address again. I'm going to start assembling the site very soon and hopefully a beta is not too far off! Stay tuned!

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My suggestion: change "Drop or Shoot" to "Manipulator", and use icons for Arm, Drop, Shoot, etc.
Try to make it more generic, so that the code doesn't have to be completely rewritten each year

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Maybe have a contact email or phone number for the team, and have the awards break down by year, then event, instead of year, then a list of everything. (I think its hard to read, maybe skipping lines would work too and be easier)

2009

-Kettering District
--District Semifinalist
--Driving Tomorrow's Technology

-Detroit District
--District Semifinalist
--Driving Tomorrow's Technology

etc...

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Hello all,

Time for another update. Props to Jay for coming up with a pretty awesome template for the site. Far better than anything I could have ever come up with. The template can be seen in image form here. Give feedback!

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i would love to see a website, where (i know this sounds really odd) robotics is not the main topic of discussion. the social side of FIRST needs some recognition!

(and yes i know chief delphi has off-topic threads, but i just want to see something different)

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Hmm, you raise a valid point. Are you talking like for individual members or for teams? I suppose once the structure for the robot pages has been constructed it won't be very difficult to port it to individuals.

Anyone have an opinion on this idea?