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Web Competitors 2010
Post up updates as you go along, wish for feedback, give suggestions to others. Share your team website here!
2009 Championship Winner - http://www.simbotics.org/ MORT will finally redo the plain red and white website and turn it into a representation of our team with the help of a MORT alum who we're very proud of. http://phillipjroth.com/ Please check out his stuff and post your own! ~~~~~~~~~~ current mess- www.mortteam11.org |
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Team 1716's all new website
http://www.frc1716.org/ It is no where near to being done right now, and missing most of the contact, but the link is above! |
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www.gpgearheads.org
This is rather out-of-date, actually. It's getting a huge revamp for the 2010 season, which has already started. We're going to start moving over and changing our content as soon as I get a little more familiar with Drupal, which is what we're switching to. |
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2009 GSR website winner-
http://www.mechanicalmayhem.org/ The photos and team news are a little out of date, like 7 months out of date, but at recent meetings we have discussed updates. brendan |
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RC... That website just isn't even fair..
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(Yes we even work together on the site) lol Also, if we could get some feedback on the MORT site ideas I'd really really appreciate it. - http://rothystyle.carbonmade.com/projects/11933 |
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The blue and black are a little harsh. I would suggest taking the black out of some areas and replace it with either white or gray (different shades that are similar to black) might be nicer on the eyes but still stick with dark and blue. my thoughts brendan |
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Im with Brendan on that Akash. The drop down menus and maybe the menu bar its self could do with a lighter shade. The white on black I don't actually see a problem with though. And maybe take the blue tent off the picture at the top?
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On 1323's site, i'm not a fan of the 9 different sub-sites with no clear way to navigate between them. Once you pick a sub-site however, the content is great. I agree on the black and blue though. Might be easier to read in a different color.
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http://www.iolani.honolulu.hi.us/robotics/opening.html
long url, i know. We might buy a domain name this coming year. I have it memorized though! =P My team's site is a bit dark too, isn't it? |
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We've re-vamped...again...
Thankfully, this year is nowhere close to the hell that last year was. http://www.team1538.com |
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Wow, 1323, that is one awesome site :)
ndsj.org/robotics We have yet to update this site with new members and sponsors, as well as fix the many grammatical mistakes from last year that we never bothered to fix after SVR... |
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Temporary site is being published on a different server for now:
http://mort.phillipjroth.com/ Let me know what you think as it goes! Thanks. |
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Akash your site's looking good but the bottom half either isn't loading or not there yet. I don't know which one? But the top half I see looks really good.
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The DiscoBots have won the Lone Star Regional Website award two years in a row.
Our team keeps the award winning site in mint condition to help other teams learn about our progress. We don't work on our 2010 website design until FIRST season starts (we like to play by the rules)! http://2009.discobots.org http://2008.discobots.org |
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Team 2502 is starting to build its website (currently, just me). I'm just setting up the site structure and whatnot. "Friedman Robotics" has not been decided and will probably change. I'll holler again when it's actually done... :)
www.team2502.com Also, we own www.teamrobot.org. That was our last year's site, but it's so lacking in design that I didn't want to really share it... :) Keehun |
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Teams in the Pacific Northwest will be delighted to hear that Billy E., the designer of www.trobotics.ca, which has won the MS Seattle Regional best website award the past two years, has graduated.
But he has left instructions on how to maintain the site... Jason |
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Akash, you might consider shifting those pictures to the sides of the content, or just removing them. Well...to be honest, actually, with content on that page they may distract less than they do now. So i'll hold judgement until some content is shown beneath.
So, i posted my link before, but haven't gotten anything :P so, AGAIN! http://team1538.com We took everyone's problems with the left hand nav and did away with them...by centering the navigation, then playing with a sub menu. I think it's getting pretty close, just needs some more page content. Specifically photos! Anything? |
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LWakefield, i dont know if its just an unspoken rule, but never say welcome and front page. and never do it in the same sentence ;) The title should have your team number in it, because when i go to bookmark it, it will be so vague. But otherwise lookin good! our site is www.247dabears.com. we plan to add html validation (its an asp.net app.... thats going to be amazing if we can pull it off) and a better theme later in the year. |
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Jason, I apologize for appearing to pick on your team's site. It does look nice and the content is top notch. Ignoring the fact that it is in Flash I would definitely say this website is wonderful. |
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I probably won't have anything much to do with it this year, since I'm in college this year, but I'll still throw my team's site into the mix:
http://d5robotics.org/ Still running the CMS I developed, so at least I'll leave a legacy :) |
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I'd just like to take a moment to explain my choices: There's a wonderful backend to the site that you should see someday, which skirts past the expensive Flash editor itself. It's an entire CMS actually. Also the standard navigation methods hold up fine under most modern browsers, again due to the wonderful SWFAddress that implements custom URL and back-button support for Flash. I do like to consider myself reasonably competent though. I have Javascript, PHP and DOM experience, enough to have done this site in another way (Dojo?) but... why? What is SO wrong about Flash? I hear a lot about hating Flash, and I even addressed issues that people have about Flash (broken navigation, slow loading, poor layout, difficulty in editing) to the point where many visitors to the site say they had expected a Flash site to be much worse, and were pleasantly surprised. I had faith that I had resolved many of the problems, but I hear people still chanting those same issues as if I hadn't. It almost seems like blind hate. Or perhaps it is a hate for proprietary technology, an opinion I do not subscribe to. My methodology may frustrate other developers who like standards, but I used Flash because it works, and a solution that works and meets the needs of my team (and ends up winning awards!) is a perfectly fine solution to me. If the solution had required standard HTML, I would've met that need as well. However, with new emerging platforms like HTML 5 and integrated video, I do hope it will be replaced eventually. Who knows what my team can come up with? I have faith! |
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You particular site did not fall prey to many of the the problems that Flash causes but those problems are still prevalent in others. I will admit I was quite surprised that not only was the site pleasant enough to use it had top notch content I'll say it again, TOP Notch Content, this is the primary failing of Flash based sites in my opinion, too often people spend a lot of time making them pretty and, for want of a better term, flashy but neglect the content. Don't let my criticisms of your choice of a solution take away from the awards, you and your team have put a lot of work into that site, it shows. If all Flash based sites had the quality yours does perhaps my only real gripe with Flash would be that Adobe doesn't know how to write a plugin for OS X that doesn't use 50+% of my cpu. |
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What about public computers that don't have flash or not the correct version installed? Having it as your WHOLE site is a little risky, as computers are getting weaker and weaker (netbooks) and some can't handle flash well. But like andrew said, i like your site, just i dont like the way its delivered
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Here's our site from last year. We plan to revamp it to some extent.
http://www.walpolerobotics.org I know there are some compatibility issues but any advice would be appreciated. |
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Remember that optimizing performance and accessibility was one of the main goals. If I couldn't do that, I would never have touched Flash. |
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As soon as I saw the site, I immediately thought about HTML5 and CSS3. With all that new web standards will offer for us, I think that whole site can be done with just HTML5 and CSS3 for markup/style. However, that's a whole another time to worry about. As much as I hate incompetent flash websites, sometimes, sites like yours are a real treat to come across sometimes. Keep up the AWESOME work. Just keep in mind that everything has its context and everything has its reasons. Some sites are meant to be implemented through standards and others not so much. Perhaps robotics site in flash wasn't the best idea, but as it stands, I don't think it's a problem that you did it in flash. Keehun Team 2502 |
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http://test.rockets34.com
The new website is currently in progress, but here is a one page view of what it will look like. Will post when more progress is made. Good luck to all teams this year. |
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http://teampronto.com
A few updates since last year. Going to be adding a whole lot more content in the next weeks.;) |
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Team 1640 Sab-bot-age, Downingtown Area Robotics
team1640.com All of the pages from prior year robots are there, and we've put the structure in for the 2010 game. |
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Our brand new, nearly complete website: http://www.teamkrunch.com
It's been a year in the making. I'm glad we're almost done!! |
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Team 1676, http://www.team1676.com/
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http://maikenmagic.com
Team 1102's website they are supposedly completely remaking it, idk i porgram the robot not the website. |
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What are most teams using to make their website?
Are you using CMS's like Joomla or just coding yourself with Dreamweaver or what? Just curious. Thanks. |
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We use MediaWiki for team1640.com. This allows any of the student and mentors to edit pages and add content. It also allows us to link pages together quickly so you can move from topic to topic. Lastly it gives me a way to roll things back to a prior state, so if "something bad" happens, I can easily fix it.
While we don't have the flash and dazzle (or dancing flying exploding pigs) of other sites, we do have a lot of content. I tell our students it's all about the content, not about the flash. Mediawiki will allow you to change the skins so you can get your team colors, etc. We have 182 pages of content (text information pages) that have 1284(*) pictures and or documents attached (embedded) into them. I'd say that 99% of our pictures have captions attached to them (who, what, etc) All of our prior year engineering documents are on-line. This year we will make daily updates to the build season info. We will try to capture what happened on the prior day of build and what is planned for today's build. Each sub-team (electrical, mechanical, drive, etc) will post what their group is doing. I highly recommend Mediawiki for site management. (*) 1180 pictures are the last five years of build / compete. We try to put up just the good pictures rather than uploading the 15,000 that get taken every season. |
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I hand-code our website. Not with DreamWeaver - by hand.
I'm also stuck designing the darn thing too, so it's a slow process (given a website print, I can have a functioning site up and running in an hour or two). Though I wish I had the time and motivation to put the website into a CMS. |
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Our webmaster is working on fixing alot of the broken links.
And we should probably sort through the 1500 some odd pictures we have in our photo gallery. www.fusd1robotics.org |
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Miss Daisy revamped her website last year and won at San Diego:
http://www.team341.com We currently only use a CMS, Wordpress, for the News section as I like to have the team members write recaps of our events and such. As for the rest of the site, I have one main student who types out code by hand in Dreamweaver (woo code completion!). Bless her. As for other CMS', I don't have any experience with Joomla, Drupal, etc but have a feeling that I will get there in the near future. Either that or I'll get so sick with those that I'll develop a simple one on my own. I also have had experience with SurrealCMS which is easy as pie to set up. One of my freelance clients uses it and has had no issues. Oh, and I am also anti-Flash for all of the above mentioned reasons. :-P |
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Here is our current site.
http://waialuarobotics.com. It gets updated at least bi-weekly with events, updates and changes such as sponsorship changes/additions. It also features our newly created VEX team that includes 8th graders as well (since we are 7-12 school). I have written several large complex level grants recently and we hope to get them as they range from 2-5 years which would setup our team for the next several years. |
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Hehe, here's Team 1631's site: www.team1631.com
It's still very much in the works, as we just got some things up. We're working on content, but we're not sure of what we want and don't want on it. |
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hey... its not great but its an update from 134's old web site.
http://www.sau53.org/net9/First |
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http://www.ghafirstrobotics.org/
Any advice for us? Our student technical director writes the code for the site. We haven't uploaded our schedule yet, because it isn't completely set. |
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i know its not done yet but...
here is the site for FRC 2333 and FTC 3867 & 3869 (yes i am aware of the lots of teams -_- not fun to get deal with that) sapulparobotics.webs.com tips please? its not quite done but i want input |
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Talon 540's website:
http://www.team540.com/ In the past years our websites have been mostly HTML and made using dreamweaver but this year we decided to go with Joomla, a content management system. I am quite happy with it and there are a lot of capabilities for it. Its still a work in progress but let me know what you guys think. |
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The 2424 web site is http://bixbyrobotics.org.
I just realized that I have a few updates to make...:o I use Zend Studio for web sites, it is a PHP editor with excellent code completion and syntax highlighting features. |
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I am the new webmaster on the Creston High School robotics team, and will probably be the first to actually map it out. Up until now, it has been hopelessly outdated due to the lack of having an actual webmaster for two consecutive years. I am currently working on making it easier to navigate.
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Team 2907 is looking to enter our website this year. Our current site is here.. http://www.auburn.wednet.edu/amhs/AM...ics/index.html I have a student working on the site and we are looking at purchasing our domain...
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I was the webmaster for The Children of the Corn last year (Team 167). I don't know for sure if they're entering the contest this year, but I built a CMS for it and they've been updating every now and then, though much of it's still out of date.
For what it's worth: http://www.icrobotics.com Comments/Questions/Advice? Thanks, -TD |
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I just finished the website for Norwell Robotics. Its written by hand using only notepad++. Any comments of advice would be nice.
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I've about finished updating team 74's website this year. we've won the excellence award for two years now and I'm hoping that we finally win it this year.
hollandchaos any comments? |
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Our site probably won't be finished until ship-date, which means the judges may or may not view the final site, but we're shorthanded this year.
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Also, in your footer, try putting links to each of those logos. I tried to click them, thinking they led somewhere, just like on the sponsors page. Clicking on logos are one of those things that people will try to do without thinking, and I'm sure your sponsors would appreciate the extra click-throughs. ;) |
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http://www.sau53.org/net9/First
This is 134's brand new website. Made it this year im my web page design class. continuing to modify it. Need some tips or some suggestions -J.R. |
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www.maikenmagic.com it's getting a 2010 revamp extreamly
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Count me in.
http://cprobodogs2171.com/index.php |
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Here is our team's (1816) website: http://www.edinarobotics.com/
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(Digging up an old conversation) I tend to stay away from Flash for a few reasons, one being that I don't know how to use it very well and also because site built entirely out of Flash are in my experience very very slow (Have you visited Adobe's site recently? :eek:), at least on my G5 iMac. It's important to remember that not everyone uses modern hardware and browsers. The percentage of people visiting the 1816 site using IE6 is still around 20%. Who knows how old/new those computers are? It makes it difficult to construct a website that works on every browser but it can be done. |
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Here is the Team 2655's new website: http://team2655.org/index.html#
It is a notepad website. Few bugs to be worked out and some content to be added but it's complete for the most part. Please let me know if you have suggestions. EDIT: I remember seeing the copywrite statement for the game animation somewhere on Chiefdelphi and now I can't find it. Can anyone lead me in the right direction? |
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http://robotics.crescentschool.org/
Still some work to do on the pictures and stuff. Just wondering, has anybody here found the submit website page, I've looked, but with no success. Also how are you planning to go above and beyond with your website (ie handicap accessible website) |
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http://www.fatherjudgerobotics.webs.com
That's our team website. I'm still working on it, but I don't plan on submitting it this year for a couple of reasons. Any comments/suggestions? I would really like to hear them. |
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I've been working on our site since the summer, I'd say it came out pretty good!
Still working on a few parts of it, but for what it's worth, http://www.team61.com |
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Ours is a work in progress, but it's getting a lot closer to completion. Most of the pages that say they will be coming soon are almost ready to be uploaded. We're running off of a template this year because our original webmaster graduated last year and the last of the others who have some experience are graduating this year. I've been finding ways to get around the template and mess with the code a lot, and I've been training newbies in as I go so hopefully it will be sustainable.
Anyway, here's team 2207's website: www.whitebearlakerobotics.com |
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Here's team 3176, Purple Precision, website. It's not done yet; I still need to have our webmaster update it to the fixed one. In this one there are still some typos and information left out.
Brownsburg's Purple Precisions Website I plan on using more css later on, but for now this will have to do. Feedback would still be nice. |
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Suggestion: "Team 2883 is based in Warroad, Minnesota. FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology") was founded by Dean Kamen to expose young people to science, technology, and engineering. FIRST is an amazing program and is an eye-opening experience for everyone." Fewer periods, more commas (in the right places), and easier to read. |
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thanks for looking.. yeah i'm not very good at writing that kind of stuff thanks for the comment/ suggestion |
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http://team1510.bpsrobotics.org/
I think there are some glitches here, but it may just be my computer. feedback is always welcome. |
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we just built up a new site... not all the bugs are taken out but here's what we have so far...
http://www.Team-Paragon.org |
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Thanks orange hat, I will draw your concerns to the team members.
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Team 847 will be submitting again this year.
http://www.team847.com/ We've done a little bit of modification to the template and such, as well as added new information since last year. Let me know what you think. -Kit |
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Oregon and Las Vegas Regional Award Winners:
team1540.org We're in the process of updating with new content soon, but as they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
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@team 1540:
Nice clean site! On a sort of minor note, it looks like you're missing an end bracket for your last youtube video. Also, Stuypulse/694: stuypulse.com It's funny, you wouldn't think that the hardest part would be keeping the content updated, but it requires more work than a jquery gallery! |
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We're up and running again, with a huge revamp from our old site. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
http://gpgearheads.org |
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Ours isnt quite done ... but Here's our website.
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MVRT 115's website has undergone a total reconstruction @ mvrt.com
new design, new layout, everything from the old website design has been changed. The content still remains as it was last year with pictures, resources for other teams, and videos of competition. Suggestions/improvements are appreciated :) |
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