[PiManIII]

Thank you everyone for the positive feedback! I do have some comments / follow up questions.


@North Sailor:

Originally Posted by North Sailor

I would better highlight your sponsors on the home page.

I changed the menu to include "Sponsors." Do you think this looks ok?

Originally Posted by North Sailor

Additionally though I like the dark color scheme, the site has a tendency to get lost in the black, as it lacks certain formatting to anchor the text. Also though easy to navigate in style, I would change your navigation order to make it more conducive to sending people to the pages they want to see (about your team).

Can you be more specific as to how I can fix this problem? I wanted to create a more modern design that was different from other teams (hence the black), but I understand that it could be difficult to read. Any way to fix this? I also changed the "about" tab, do you think this is ok and is easily visible?

Originally Posted by North Sailor

It would be a good idea to add a photo of the current team, as well as some better information about what FIRST is (not just the awards information)

While our photo is at the bottom of the about page, I also added it to the home page. Do you think this looks ok or is it too crowded?

Originally Posted by North Sailor

Hope that helps. I am not trying to rip it apart, I am just trying to give valuable advice, as I serve as a Website Judge for 15 regionals and the Championship event.

Thank you very much! Your input is greatly appreciated.



@elemental:

Originally Posted by elemental

Why is the home page different from the portal page? It is a bit confusing as I expect to return to the portal page when clicking "Home". For the portal page itself. Consider coding it to have a fixed width like the rest of the
site. I have a high resolution screen and the scrolling function does not work. (Here's a screenshot) Also, it would be nice to include the FIRST logo on the portal page. Why is there a portal page?

I understand that this can be confusing and even considered removing the CoverPage (/portal). To resolve this problem, I added a button on the bottom left of every page to go back to the "awesome coverpage." Let me know if you think this will solve the issue. If not, what else do you think I could do?

Originally Posted by elemental

Consider having adding an "About Us" link in the "About" dropdown menu. I really like your section about your team but people rarely click on the parent link in the menu. Same thing goes for the "FIRST" and "Calendar" sections.

I changed this. Let me know if this fixes it. For the Calendar, I am not too worried about that since few people go to it and the Master Calendar is for team members. However, if this still is an issue, feel free to let me know and I will be happy to change it.

Originally Posted by elemental

One thing that has worked in the past is making the parent links portals to the children links in the dropdown menu. I see you already do that for your "Media" and "Reference" sections. It would be nice to apply it to all sections as a lot of mobile devices can't use dropdown menus and giving them links to other sections will allow them to use your site.

Do you think that adding a dropdown menu on the home button do have a coverpage? I feel that this would get confusing. I can try having the parent linking on each page, but I feel that that removes the purpose of that page. Let me know what you think.

Also, I enabled a mobile version of the website, so feel free to check it out on a phone!

Originally Posted by elemental

Perhaps, for your content, you could break your sections down. For example have a short paragraph with your main points and/or a bulleted list then have your longer paragraphs below. When people browse the internet, they aren't usually interested in long bodies of text. It is an immediate turn off. Instead, they like to skim information. So, by highlighting your main points, you can get your information across in a way that caters to the
skimmers.

I completely agree. However, how do you think I could implement this? I use headers and try to break up content, but any specific suggetions would greatly help. Also, regarding larger resolutions, because I did a lot of custom coding, the coverpage is left justified to allow for more images, but I took those out to allow for the informational so I'm not sure how I would fix this. I know on smaller resolutions the website should scroll. Let me know what you think.




Thank you both very much.


Cheers,

PiManIII
Los Altos Robotics Team 114