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Re: team website opinions

Here's a few of my passing thoughts,

I like your homepage, well laid out with the top navbar and large center photo. Although there is a lot of infomation on there, maybe a bit too much. You have a lot of add-on widgets and while I liked the countdown to kickoff one, i found the globe with the recent hit (showing my home city) and little creepy. Also, one thing website judges look for is whether they can quickly find your team name, number, physical location (city, state and/or school) and a link to the FIRST homepage. Maybe try incorporating those elements (along with your logo) in a larger way.

On your menu bar each submenu drops down a level, which is a little odd. I thought you had a lovely media section with a clean photo layout and good youtube embedding. I thought it was a little confusing that your documents page wasn't with your Resources Page. Perhaps reorganize to where the Documents page is under Resources and the Resources tab has a page called links (which includes links to FIRST, CD and more if you want to add them).

Your "Game" Section seemed to have all the right information about Rebound Rumble, so nice job on that. You might want to add an "About FIRST" page that gives more detail to the user than having to navigate to the FIRST site (and therefore away from yours). I like how your Sponsors gave a lot of information about each one. With each section I would include a link to that Sponsors homepage. While the 'Join the Team' is yet to be filled in, it is well focused and I am sure Dean would like the Light bulb ad. Your contact us page is also detailed and the google maps inset is always a nice touch. The homage to your friend teams in a kind addition.
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