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Re: First Website Revision

I glanced around your site and here are some of my quick thoughts -

I like that your team colors and your logo are prominently displayed through your design. I would advise adding your teams physical location (school name and/or city, state) to the header as that is one of the first things judges look for. While I like your rolling pictures up top, I would probably rearrange your front page content. You would probably want the initial paragraph explaining who you are up front, instead of towards the bottom. So maybe trying switching the location of 'Latest Blog' and 'About our Team' ? I would maybe make the top slideshow smaller because I had to scroll to get the the navigation bar. Also the fact that it is on every page means that when someone goes to a different page the banner is the first thing they see and when i did that at first i thought i hadn't switched pages (just gone back to the top of the one I was on previously). I do like the information in the side and bottom bar.

I will assume that some of the links are broken because the site is still in development. Your about the team section seems to be the exact same as the snippet on the front page, so not much new information is given. Your about our school is very detailed, although it does involve a lot of scrolling. There might be a way to package the information to where it appears in a concise format. You don't have very much under About FIRST, but it does cover whats important. From a navigational stand-point I would probably put 'Awards' and 'Robots' under about you instead of about FIRST because they are your robots and your awards. Based on the nav bar it looks like your guys will have a lot of great content once its filled in.
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