I inherited our team's website from my sister the summer before my freshman year. It had always been small, ignored and (at some points) nonexistent. Over the past three years I have poured my life into it. I am the only website person (we do not have a team for it) and work on it in addition to being the controls captain and a large organizer for our outreach. I started out with eight pages and taught myself HTML and CSS. I spent hours and hours scanning over the websites of all the teams I considered amazing. I made charts and tables and lists of what every FIRST website simply had to have. In particular 1114 served as inspiration. My freshman year we got Website Excellence and last year (when i was a sophomore) we won Best Website at the Bayou. Our website URL (
http://wwww.team1912.com) is now used by our entire team as a powerful tool. I used to have to nag everyone to even acknowledging our site. Imagine my inner joy when I hear our mentors brag about it to sponsors, VIPs, etc.
I don't know why websites get ignored. I know our's was for a very long time.