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1986titans 14-01-2011 00:40
Web Competitors 2011
 
I was surprised to find that there wasn't one of these already.

Like previous threads, feel free to post your team's entry for the website award this year, give feedback, etc.

Team Titanium's website is located at http://www.teamtitanium.org/ . It's not complete, but it should be soon. If you want to compare the look (it's very similar right now) to last year's site, click the FRSee tab, as the CSS for it is localized.

SteveGPage 14-01-2011 01:04
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
www.robobees.org

It is about 90% done, still adding some older galleries, blogs, and fixing the calendar.

bhsrobotics1671 14-01-2011 01:51
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
In Progress:

http://www.brt1671.com

waialua359 14-01-2011 02:09
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Our build season is updated daily, the day after each build day.

http://www.waialuarobotics.com.

synth3tk 14-01-2011 10:54
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Work-in-progress. Probably won't be "finished" until Week 3 or 4.

http://rethinkrobotics.org

dcarr 14-01-2011 20:29
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Mostly a carryover from last year, but working on adding more regular updates, organizing media & content better. Feedback is welcome! I'm learning a lot by checking out other team sites so please give me your recommendations/complaints/fixes :-)

www.serviterobotics.org

Em.Er.Go. 15-01-2011 16:24
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Who was the national website winner of 2010?? anyone know?

Dustin Shadbolt 15-01-2011 17:11
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
461 Westside Boiler Invasion was the national winner last season.

http://www.boilerinvasion.org

David El 19-01-2011 13:21
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
www.sjarobotics.com
Feedback would be greatly appreciated :)

Dustin Shadbolt 19-01-2011 14:49
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by David El (Post 1003544)
www.sjarobotics.com
Feedback would be greatly appreciated :)
I notice you have music playing in the background on your website, and I couldn't figure out how to stop it. That's because your playing controls are not showing up properly. I get like a pixel show that I can barely see to click to stop the music. I'm running Google Chrome.

klmx30302 19-01-2011 15:38
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
After several years of our website going relatively unchanged we completely redesigned it.
Here is the old site: http://chopshop166.com/cms/
Here is the new site: http://chopshop166.com/drupal/
We're still working on it and it will probably not be finished for a week or two but it looks good so far.

basicxman 19-01-2011 15:43
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
In development, http://mmrambotics.ca

Code at http://github.com/MMRambotics/MMRambotics.ca :D

JohnFogarty 19-01-2011 15:49
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
http://maikenmagic.com/
In Progress

basicxman 19-01-2011 15:51
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by John_1102 (Post 1003638)

Looks good, but my very first two impressions are
  1. Please don't change the cursor
  2. How about a team email address instead of a gmail?

I like how there's a good picture front and center, but perhaps think about moving it higher above the fold.

Also, I like the Ship Date counter :D

2641Captain 19-01-2011 18:04
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Hey guys Team 2641 is getting serious about developing a web presence this year. The general layout of out site is finished, now we are just adding content. Any constructive criticism is really appreciated.:)

http://team2641.com

David El 19-01-2011 19:13
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dShad (Post 1003590)
I notice you have music playing in the background on your website, and I couldn't figure out how to stop it. That's because your playing controls are not showing up properly. I get like a pixel show that I can barely see to click to stop the music. I'm running Google Chrome.
Thanks, that problem should be solved now :)

Dustin Shadbolt 19-01-2011 21:46
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by David El (Post 1003800)
Thanks, that problem should be solved now :)
Yep it is! Nice site overall.

jwmatson16 19-01-2011 22:59
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Team Stealth 1802
Piper High School

www.piperrobotics.com

robotics1208 20-01-2011 14:18
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Looking for critique on what to add and not to add.
The websites look great

www.othsrobotics.com

Also the domain doesnt really work without the "www" we tried the htaccess redirect but that didnt seem to fix the problem

Team 1208
O'Fallon Township High School

basicxman 20-01-2011 14:24
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by robotics1208 (Post 1004345)
Also the domain doesnt really work without the "www" we tried the htaccess redirect but that didnt seem to fix the problem
What web server do you run?

Here's a sample from ours.
Code:
RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} (on)?
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^www.mmrambotics.ca$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)
RewriteRule .? http(?%1s)://mmrambotics.ca%2 [R=301]

robotics1208 20-01-2011 14:31
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^othsrobotics.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.othsrobotics.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirect 302 /welcome.php http://www.othsrobotics.com/index.shtml

is what we currently have

We are running DirectAdmin as our server

basicxman 20-01-2011 14:36
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by robotics1208 (Post 1004354)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^othsrobotics.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.othsrobotics.com/$1 [R=301,L]
That would only redirect non-www URL's to www URL's.

robotics1208 20-01-2011 14:42
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
We know that's the code but for some reason it doesnt work.

Where do we put that code?

Nahum 20-01-2011 14:55
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
www.eastlakerobotics.org
pretty much done, still a little in progress.

David El 20-01-2011 19:23
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dShad (Post 1003896)
Yep it is! Nice site overall.
Thanks :)

sdlynx 20-01-2011 21:40
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.

Dustin Shadbolt 22-01-2011 19:38
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by David El (Post 1004546)
Thanks :)
No Problem!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nahum (Post 1004365)
www.eastlakerobotics.org
pretty much done, still a little in progress.
Nice website overall. Some simple suggestions:

1) Give some styling to your dropdown menus. Like a hover state that way it's easier (and cooler) to see which one you are hovering over.

2) I suggest making your logo clickable :P. People's instincts are to click the logo to go home.

But again nice site!

Quote:
Originally Posted by sdlynx (Post 1004661)
This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.
Nice slider concept in the center! I was thinking of doing something like that this year. Do you use your own custom cms?

Sean Raia 22-01-2011 19:51
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
I am pleased to share our website with you all.

I have been working off of last years template to try and make it fresh, basic, and sleek. I hope to hear some constructive criticism from you CD folks.

sdlynx 23-01-2011 00:05
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dShad (Post 1005939)
Nice slider concept in the center! I was thinking of doing something like that this year. Do you use your own custom cms?
Yeah. It's just a little bit of simple MySQL and I used CKEditor. If only I could get someone else to actually write the content now haha.

If someone zooms in on the site though, the layout gets totally ruined. Anybody think of a way around this?

ajd 23-01-2011 00:09
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sdlynx (Post 1004661)
This is Powerhawks Team 1111's entry for the award (http://powerhawks.org/). It's not done yet but well on the way there.
When I view this site, the logo banner ("Power Hawks Robotics Team 1111 from ...") displays to the left of the rest of the content, making the page twice as wide as my screen. I'm on Google Chrome, Linux.

Team 3238's website is at http://team3238.com - any feedback is appreciated.

sdlynx 23-01-2011 22:11
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ajd (Post 1006203)
When I view this site, the logo banner ("Power Hawks Robotics Team 1111 from ...") displays to the left of the rest of the content, making the page twice as wide as my screen. I'm on Google Chrome, Linux.

Team 3238's website is at http://team3238.com - any feedback is appreciated.
You might be on an old build of chrome, it works fine for me on linux and windows through chrome.

Speaking of which, when the award guidelines say the site should work in all browsers, does it imply that the browsers being tested are only the newest versions? Our website works in the newest version of all browsers but fails on some old ones (IE 6/7 or something like that).

Dustin Shadbolt 23-01-2011 22:24
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sdlynx (Post 1006902)
You might be on an old build of chrome, it works fine for me on linux and windows through chrome.

Speaking of which, when the award guidelines say the site should work in all browsers, does it imply that the browsers being tested are only the newest versions? Our website works in the newest version of all browsers but fails on some old ones (IE 6/7 or something like that).
The main old browser you need to be concerned with is the IE series. Now I will try to make a website work for IE6, but you could also take the route of displaying a notice that states "Hey you are an really really old browser. Click here to upgrade to a new faster secure one". Then list FF,Chrome,IE#. However, I would try to optimize for IE7. You could use this site to get a feel for the number of people using each web browser and what version they usually run. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

However, I don't think you will be counted off horribly for not being able to display properly in IE6 and others.

xSAWxBLADEx 23-01-2011 22:38
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
www.247dabears.com

MaxMax161 24-01-2011 08:57
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
So what do you guys think? http://www.team1676.com/

fortinj1354 26-01-2011 14:25
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
I'm new to our team this year, but no one else wanted/could do it, so here it is. (Work in progress) http://waltonrobotics.org

Bob Steele 26-01-2011 15:29
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Work in progress but most of it is there..

www.ahsrobotics.us

Home of the Skunkworks Robotics Team

robodude03 26-01-2011 15:35
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Also a work in progress:

http://team399.org/

Web site works well on iPhone and iPad too, just need to add more content. Any comments would be appreciated :)

sdlynx 26-01-2011 17:29
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Does anyone know a good way to test whether our site works with an older browser aside from actually getting it (I don't even know if this is possible).

Edit: http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ does this.

xSAWxBLADEx 27-01-2011 14:17
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Steele (Post 1008886)
Work in progress but most of it is there..

www.ahsrobotics.us

Home of the Skunkworks Robotics Team
very nice i mean very nice...a few minor things theres a random white line on the front page to the right above the skunk facts (its very minor), and with your awards that picture really through me off cause it was below the 2006 awards and its 2010 i think its just the wrong placement of that picture maybe even deleted it truely doesnt need to be there but overall its great good job :)

robodude03 27-01-2011 14:29
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sdlynx (Post 1009004)
Does anyone know a good way to test whether our site works with an older browser aside from actually getting it (I don't even know if this is possible).

Edit: http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ does this.
You can download Internet Explorer 9 which has an option to use IE 7 or 8 standards. Just hit F12 to bring up the developer options. Let me know if you need more help.

rsegrest 29-01-2011 14:33
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Like everyone else we are up and getting updated almost daily. Constructive comments are welcome...

www.pantherbots.net.

:D

sdlynx 30-01-2011 23:28
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by robodude03 (Post 1009784)
You can download Internet Explorer 9 which has an option to use IE 7 or 8 standards. Just hit F12 to bring up the developer options. Let me know if you need more help.
Oh cool, I didn't know that. Looks like it'll be useful if I can ever actually edit the site to work for IE 7. Thanks.

elemental 31-01-2011 14:20
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
www.team2655.org

I'm still writing and receiving content so some pages are almost blank. Any comments/criticism on what I have so far will be very welcome.
Thank you!

maltz1881 31-01-2011 14:32
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
www.team1322.org We are doing an update but content should be close to the same TY

robodude03 31-01-2011 14:55
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sdlynx (Post 1012161)
Oh cool, I didn't know that. Looks like it'll be useful if I can ever actually edit the site to work for IE 7. Thanks.
No problem. IE 8 and below are really the only browsers you will have to do some major tweaking to. As for the other browsers, lets just say I like standards and the fact that Microsoft is finally making an attempt to follow them is a positive thing :P

FIRSTtm134 31-01-2011 14:58
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Team 134's website is located here www.134team.orgNew version should be up by the end of the week.

R.C. 31-01-2011 15:00
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Throw us into the list:

team1323.com

-RC

mdotjoelint 02-02-2011 23:05
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!

elemental 03-02-2011 09:06
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by mdotjoelint (Post 1014659)
Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!
Nice website! I thought the background would be to busy at first but it grew on me.
When I went to the homepage I was a bit confused since all that appeared was blog posts and a mini team bio on the sidebar. I don't really know the limitations of Wordpress but would it be possible to include a short welcome message at the top of the page and maybe the FIRST logo? People not familiar with FIRST or your team might be confused and pass the rest of your great content over if they are not grabbed and have a reason to look further.
Also, would it be possible to remove the title="" tags from your navigation? I have a hard time clicking on the right links because the image titles get in the way.
Otherwise very nice site and good content!

Dustin Shadbolt 06-02-2011 02:23
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by mdotjoelint (Post 1014659)
Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!
Elemental said most of the things that I could think of. If you can't code an intro paragraph via wordpress. You can just hardcode it (html) into the theme.

Koko Ed 06-02-2011 07:51
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
http://www.x-cats.org/

ahollenbach 06-02-2011 15:29
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
www.cybersonics.org
Any input would be awesome!
This year, we have put on a lot more information (although we're still lacking quite a bit, IMO). Also, if anyone has suggestions on how to keep our dynamic menu from hiding behind our flash objects, that would be great (we already tried changing the z-indices)

ahollenbach 06-02-2011 15:35
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by mdotjoelint (Post 1014659)
Team 2137 (TORC aka The Oxford RoboCats) has a website! It's still being worked on, so some things aren't completed.

http://www.team2137.org/

Give me suggestions!
Maybe it's just for me, but your post-date class is just showing a time. Therefore it always looks like this for me (chrome):
Quote:
by Joe on 5:40 PM in News, Summary
For your script, if the post is >1 day old, it should default to date only, no time displayed. If the psot is <1 day old, "on" should be "at"

Otherwise, your site looks awesome! Keep up the good work.

SavtaKenneth 06-02-2011 15:48
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Ours is at aleh2212.com
still has a lot of work to be done on it, I trust our website team to do a good job though.

Joseph Bisch 06-02-2011 16:09
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Check out Team 2064's website at our new URL: www.frc2064.com

Feedback is much appreciated.

KC1AJT 07-02-2011 11:30
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
our site for this year is still currently in development, but I suspect it to be done by the end of the week

here's the link to the main page: http://www.team61.com

basicxman 07-02-2011 11:42
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Gah, 10 days left to finish websites D:

elemental 07-02-2011 11:52
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Joseph Bisch (Post 1016962)
Check out Team 2064's website at our new URL: www.frc2064.com

Feedback is much appreciated.
Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes. ;)

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.

elemental 07-02-2011 11:54
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by basicxman (Post 1017562)
Gah, 10 days left to finish websites D:
D: And the deadline is noon so I won't be able to stay up until midnight working on last-minuet details.

So much to do so little time. :ahh:

Joseph Bisch 07-02-2011 12:26
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by elemental (Post 1017567)
Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes. ;)

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.
Thank you for your input. I am going to implement those content related changes. It would be helpful to know your computer's resolution.

Font color is an area that I was having issues with. Also, I was having trouble getting the links to be noticeable without the grey highlight.

Would you please try looking at the site again. I changed the font. Though I know it won't totally fix the black on red issue, it may help. The font looks crisper to me.

elemental 07-02-2011 12:43
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Joseph Bisch (Post 1017584)
Thank you for your input. I am going to implement those content related changes. It would be helpful to know your computer's resolution.

Font color is an area that I was having issues with. Also, I was having trouble getting the links to be noticeable without the grey highlight.

Would you please try looking at the site again. I changed the font. Though I know it won't totally fix the black on red issue, it may help. The font looks crisper to me.
Hi,
My computer resolution is 1920x1200. To get the menu content centered you could try adding a text-align:center; or a margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; to your css.

I checked your website again and yes the font looks easier to read. I understand that it takes a lot of work to change colors/fonts on websites. For the links perhaps some shade of blue?

Joseph Bisch 07-02-2011 13:00
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by elemental (Post 1017567)
Nice colors! I also really like your fav.ico.
Your menu is all the way over to the left for me since I have a high resolution browser. Also, it would be great if you could include a welcome message that explains what your team is and a little about FIRST to make people want to read more.

Black front on the red background is really hard on the eyes. I would suggest either switching to white font (still hard on the eyes but easier to read) or flipping your color scheme so that the background is red and your main div is white with black text. Not really a big deal but it might help people with older eyes. ;)

With your links you might want to think of switching the colors so they don't need grey highlights. As soon as I land on the a page the links pop out at me and distract me from the page content.

Great content otherwise. I love, love, love your sponsor page. It is very easy to read and it is really neat how you wrote something for each sponsor!
Maybe you could write something on the challenge page explaining why there are challenges. You never know what order vistors will view your pages so try to make it easier for them to understand what things are.
Quote:
Originally Posted by elemental (Post 1017588)
Hi,
My computer resolution is 1920x1200. To get the menu content centered you could try adding a text-align:center; or a margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; to your css.

I checked your website again and yes the font looks easier to read. I understand that it takes a lot of work to change colors/fonts on websites. For the links perhaps some shade of blue?
Thank you for your help. That is a high resolution monitor:yikes: .

I went with a light blue for most of the links and they look good without a highlight.

ahollenbach 07-02-2011 18:47
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by elemental (Post 1017569)
D: And the deadline is noon so I won't be able to stay up until midnight working on last-minuet details.

So much to do so little time. :ahh:
Sure there will be! HTMLathon from 2:30pm the 16th into 11:59am the 17th!!!

who needs sleep? :p

Dustin Shadbolt 08-02-2011 09:30
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahollenbach (Post 1017898)
Sure there will be! HTMLathon from 2:30pm the 16th into 11:59am the 17th!!!

who needs sleep? :p
Yep agreed ;)

Em.Er.Go. 11-02-2011 00:18
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Here is Team Fusion 364's site:

www.teamfusion364.org

We are still putting in information and working out tweaks, but we would love any constructive criticism you may have. Good luck to all the teams!

Dustin Shadbolt 11-02-2011 21:51
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Em.Er.Go. (Post 1020339)
Here is Team Fusion 364's site:

www.teamfusion364.org

We are still putting in information and working out tweaks, but we would love any constructive criticism you may have. Good luck to all the teams!
First off, awesome site. I always like how professional some sites look. Definitely gives a first impression! I love the QR-Code lol. Overall nice site (especially the logo and use of the first logo elements). However, I do have to say the background is a little busy. Maybe less would be better when it comes to your site? I would also throw a small suggestion up to add a hover state for your drop-down menu items. Maybe a simple white text (bolder) or a white color change or something. Again overall nice site. Is there a mobile version?

OScubed 12-02-2011 12:27
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
http://www.penfieldrobotics.com for the Harris RF, Penfield High School FIRST Team 1511 Rolling Thunder Website!

kpp58 12-02-2011 16:26
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Here is Team 58 The Riotcrew's website.
http://riotcrew.org/
Any feedback would be appreciated on this survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/riotcrewwebsurvey

Thanks

mdotjoelint 12-02-2011 18:47
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ahollenbach (Post 1016937)
Maybe it's just for me, but your post-date class is just showing a time. Therefore it always looks like this for me (chrome):

For your script, if the post is >1 day old, it should default to date only, no time displayed. If the psot is <1 day old, "on" should be "at"

Otherwise, your site looks awesome! Keep up the good work.
Yes, I realize the issue. I use chrome as well. I'm having trouble changing it, but I'm confident that I'll figure it out.

Thanks for the input, it was worth it's weight in gold!

mdotjoelint 12-02-2011 19:24
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by elemental (Post 1014810)
Nice website! I thought the background would be to busy at first but it grew on me.
When I went to the homepage I was a bit confused since all that appeared was blog posts and a mini team bio on the sidebar. I don't really know the limitations of Wordpress but would it be possible to include a short welcome message at the top of the page and maybe the FIRST logo? People not familiar with FIRST or your team might be confused and pass the rest of your great content over if they are not grabbed and have a reason to look further.
Also, would it be possible to remove the title="" tags from your navigation? I have a hard time clicking on the right links because the image titles get in the way.
Otherwise very nice site and good content!
Thanks for the input! I'll take it all into account.

I'll try and hook'em.

Em.Er.Go. 12-02-2011 21:39
Re: Web Competitors 2011
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by dShad (Post 1020937)
First off, awesome site. I always like how professional some sites look. Definitely gives a first impression! I love the QR-Code lol. Overall nice site (especially the logo and use of the first logo elements). However, I do have to say the background is a little busy. Maybe less would be better when it comes to your site? I would also throw a small suggestion up to add a hover state for your drop-down menu items. Maybe a simple white text (bolder) or a white color change or something. Again overall nice site. Is there a mobile version?


Thanks for the feedback! the menu has a hover state, the text goes from white to grey...maybe it's just not too noticeable with your monitor's settings. and nope, no mobile version yet. it works fine on most phones though.

Systemetric 13-02-2011 14:29
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After 2 months of design and development, our updated site is now online at systemetric.org. Let us know what you think!

2641Captain 13-02-2011 19:34
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Hey guys our web site is almost finished and the deadline is rapidly approaching. Check out our site http://team2641.com . I still have to do the "Our Story" page, I want it to be good.

ernie. 13-02-2011 21:03
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What theme did you use in Wordpress?

KC1AJT 15-02-2011 16:09
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Ok Team 61 has our site just about done, just some minor things here and there. http://team61.com please give feedback!

Joseph Bisch 15-02-2011 16:12
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Quote:
Ok Team 61 has our site just about done, just some minor things here and there. http://team61.com please give feedback!
Nice, very professional. Maybe add information on your school(s), unless I just missed it.

KC1AJT 15-02-2011 16:16
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Originally Posted by Joseph Bisch (Post 1023711)
Nice, very professional. Maybe add information on your school(s), unless I just missed it.
There's a little bit on the home page, about the team page, and the vocational collaboration page. There is also a link to the school's site in the bottom left.

Elizabeth Waters 15-02-2011 17:39
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www.team624.org

Enjoy!

If you haven't already, our team has also created (like last year) a free iPhone application with the season manual and other documents. Check it out for easy access during the competition: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frc-l...413898243?mt=8.

Kelsey1923 15-02-2011 17:49
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Hey we were wondering if you could make changes after you submit the website award.

Dustin Shadbolt 15-02-2011 18:03
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Originally Posted by Kelsey1923 (Post 1023790)
Hey we were wondering if you could make changes after you submit the website award.
I wouldn't see why not :). They do expect you to keep the site up-to-date and functioning as a real website.

Red One 15-02-2011 20:16
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Here is The Devastators 2011 site built from scratch. It's not finished yet and there's going to be a big overhaul hopefully tonight with all links working and adjustments to visual effects. :D

http://www.hsawaco.org/FRCTeam/Home.html

Jogo 15-02-2011 21:40
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Yeah you can change your site. And if your a late regional, there's a good chance that judges won't see your site for a couple weeks anyways.

North Sailor 16-02-2011 11:08
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Originally Posted by Jogo (Post 1023959)
Yeah you can change your site. And if your a late regional, there's a good chance that judges won't see your site for a couple weeks anyways.
You can make changes to the site, but they will not be visible for what the judges see. For the FIRST submission in years past, it takes a capture of the site at the time of deadline. Any changes after this will be solely for the benefit of the viewing public, but not for judging.

Sunshine 16-02-2011 12:59
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Check out Team 2062's website at our new URL: http://core2062.com/

Epic 17-02-2011 12:45
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Check out Team 2851's new website!

http://crevolutionrobotics.org

North Sailor 17-02-2011 12:55
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The new ILITE Robotics Website:

www.first1885.org

basicxman 17-02-2011 13:56
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I had to go into a sudden surgery and didn't get the website to where I wanted it, when do the judges generally start analyzing websites?

Dustin Shadbolt 17-02-2011 14:59
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Originally Posted by basicxman (Post 1025170)
I had to go into a sudden surgery and didn't get the website to where I wanted it, when do the judges generally start analyzing websites?
Kind of wondering the same thing.. We got the website submitted but we did notice when inspecting it closer the some of the files got goofed in the transfer. It's fixed now but I'm just wondering if that will hurt us in the long run.

North Sailor 17-02-2011 15:19
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Originally Posted by dShad (Post 1025216)
Kind of wondering the same thing.. We got the website submitted but we did notice when inspecting it closer the some of the files got goofed in the transfer. It's fixed now but I'm just wondering if that will hurt us in the long run.
The websites are usually judged two to three weeks prior to the regional, depending on the organization of that regional. As I mentioned before, unless it has suddenly changed, the version of the site that they will see is the version you had uploaded at exactly noon today. In the past the FIRST system takes a capture of the directory at the deadline, and that is what is judged.

Hope that helps.

Dustin Shadbolt 17-02-2011 15:34
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Originally Posted by North Sailor (Post 1025232)
The websites are usually judged two to three weeks prior to the regional, depending on the organization of that regional. As I mentioned before, unless it has suddenly changed, the version of the site that they will see is the version you had uploaded at exactly noon today. In the past the FIRST system takes a capture of the directory at the deadline, and that is what is judged.

Hope that helps.
Eeks. Thanks :\. Lets hope the kids got the files swamped out in time then.

KC1AJT 17-02-2011 17:02
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i know for a fact that last year "snapshots" were not used. one of our mentors is a website judge for regionals we dont compete in and she would actually judge them in her spare time at the meetings. judges are just given a list of urls you have nothing to worry about

Dustin Shadbolt 17-02-2011 17:19
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Originally Posted by computerteen643 (Post 1025317)
i know for a fact that last year "snapshots" were not used. one of our mentors is a website judge for regionals we dont compete in and she would actually judge them in her spare time at the meetings. judges are just given a list of urls you have nothing to worry about
mmm Interesting. Thanks Patrick. It's not like it would have been a whole extra week of work. It was fixed like ten minutes after the deadline (would have been sooner but their teacher was lecturing ;) ).

Good luck to everyone this year. Definitely some nice sites out there!

gloomy_lion 17-02-2011 17:27
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Check out the new website of the Robo-Lions: http://www.robo-lions.org/

North Sailor 18-02-2011 07:37
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Quote:
Originally Posted by computerteen643 (Post 1025317)
i know for a fact that last year "snapshots" were not used. one of our mentors is a website judge for regionals we dont compete in and she would actually judge them in her spare time at the meetings. judges are just given a list of urls you have nothing to worry about
6.8.1 Submission and Deadline Information
Teams must enter their website into the FIRST awards submission site by Noon EST on
February 17, 2011 to be evaluated. Each team’s website is eligible for a website award at
every regional event at which the team is competing. The website must be complete and
functional by the date of submission. Any website found to be “down,” and not viewable by
the evaluators, will be disqualified.

I am also a website judge. The judges are given a list of URLs through the FIRST submission website not on the public internet, which could imply the use of a snapshot. This allows them to look specifically at the website at time of submission. Any detail beyond this, may be in speculation, as it is not discussed in further detail in the rulebook.

aechmtwash11 18-02-2011 07:46
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Just a few additions/changes from last year for EOT!

www.kyeot.com

North Sailor 18-02-2011 08:06
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Originally Posted by aechmtwash11 (Post 1025759)
Just a few additions/changes from last year for EOT!

www.kyeot.com
That looks great. I love the logo, and the site design really exemplifies your team image.

Matthew Blake 18-02-2011 22:02
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Team 3481, Rookie Team, San Antonio, Texas, Alamo Regional

broncbotz.com

Jonzki 19-02-2011 11:20
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Team 3481, Rookie Team, San Antonio, Texas.

broncbotz.com

lynca 19-02-2011 22:27
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Our 2011 site is up !
http://2011.discobots.org/

We are going up against the AdamBots 245 and Robowranglers 148 at the Alamo Regional so it should be a down to the wire website battle.

GGCO 19-02-2011 23:19
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Check out COMETS Robotics' latest and greatest update to our site! We switched over from static HTML/CSS to Joomla. It has made our lives much easier.


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