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Unread 15-06-2012, 21:47
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Re: Web critique

You have a really good start. I would say that all of the content you have up is good quality for an award, although I did notice a few grammatical errors. Also, calendar is not spelled "calender" as your navigation says. It's ok, it will take a bit to work out all those kinks. Try having another person on the team read it over - maybe even read it backwards - for simple stuff like that. I know I've made my share of grammar/spelling mistakes when I used to work on our site at 3am.

The graphical theme fits your team really well. My only concern with it is the content area is quite small. This is fine now, because it makes up for the fact that there is not much content yet, but in the future it might make the page look cluttered. Expanding the content area might be something you want to think about in the future.

You also might want to think about adding an area about your robots and/or rethinking the "General" about page. Most likely, this information will already be on the home page, because what school, what area, and what organizations you are affiliates are often the first things a user will want to know when they get to your site. And why not focus a bit on the robots? That's what you guys do! Don't be afraid to use pictures. It makes the text more interesting, and makes sure that people don't think you're building lego robots or something. It is also really really important that there is an easy way back to the home page without clicking the back button a billion times. A link at the bottom is fine, but usually the logo in the upper left (or left side in your case) also links to the home page.

The last topic I want to visit is the news/calendar/announcements sections. There doesn't seem to be a really clear division between these lists even though the each have unique content. You might want to consider making it clear that one is for the public/families/friends and the other is for team members. Also, consider using a bulleted list or dates for the announcements rather than an ordered list. That looks a tad funny.

Anyhow, I think that's enough to start with. Considering it's a google site, I won't comment on the uniqueness/cleanliness of your code. In case you were wondering, I used to be the webmaster of http://www.hammerhead226.org sophomore/junior/(and kind of )senior year. We won the state website award my sophomore year =). Feel free to send me a chief delphi message or something if you have more questions, although I can't guarantee I'll answer it quickly since I don't hang around here much anymore.
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