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Re: Website critiques?

Some generalized thoughts..

You definitely show the style of your team through the color of your website. Im assuming you main colors are black, pink and blue? I like that your header gives the basics of your team, that is not only very helpful to the user but is also the first thing website judges look for. Some one already mentioned about the FIRST logo and I agree that you might want to make it a little larger. Perhaps use the official logo with the word 'FIRST' below the 3 shapes and make it about the size of the unicorn on the other side? That might bring a nice level of balance. I like your social media links but I would move them a little farther from the FIRST logo, those two sets look a little too close. Your footer also brings your team's style together very well.

Your about FIRST and home pages are solid, me gusta. Most people I see have 'Contact Us' as a separate tab so it is quick to get to, but that is purely a personal choice. You history section is very standardized which gives the user continuity. This maybe a typo but on the 2012 one the font seems to alternate colors. I would stick to one font color for the whole website because that makes things easier to read.

For your student bios I would either make a person's information all on one line or indent the details. That way its a little easier to process. By the way for your mentors page instead of the picture my browser printed [flagallery gid=1 name="Mentors"]. I like the way you structured your alumni page but the past mentors sliding piece doesn't seem to match the rest of the page. If the alumni and past mentors are on the same page, I'd do them in the same style. But just thought.

Its a little confusing that the tabs are links but then there are subtabs under them. I thought that 'News' was just the heading for the photos tab and only by accident did I realize that there was also a news page. I do really like the way you have structured your image gallery, one of the best I've seen in a while. I liked resources, news, this years game and becoming a sponsor pages. Most teams use Google Calendar but you have found an alternative that works just as good, so coolio.

While I wasnt sure on the 'past mentors' set-up I really liked it for the sponsors. My only suggestion would be to make each image for the sponsor also be a link to their homepage. That way you can click the image for Rockwell Automation and go to their site. Right now you have the titles for your webpages structured as "FIRST Team 2399:The Fighting Unicorns >> Name of Page". I was looking through your website and had several tabs open and based on the small tab name I couldn't tell which page was which quickly because the from the tab I could only read "FIRST Team 2399:The Figh" . The way to get around this would be to name the pages: 'Name of Page >> FIRST Team 2399:The Fighting Unicorns". Then again that's just personal habit of mine.
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